Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English, usually the leader in concentration compilations, gives way to Government, Economics, and History this year as 1940 men boost Economics and Government to a leading tie of 124 concentrators each. While Government rose from 105 concentrators to 124, English fell from...
...remained unchanged. Marked increases were shown in nearly all the sciences. Chemistry rose from 46 concentrators of last year to 66 for this year. Biology increased from 26 to 35, and the Geological Sciences have 22 concentrators this year as contrasted to last year's 18. Romance Languages fell from 53 concentrators to 36. Contradictory to the general science trend Physics dropped from 23 to 18, and Fine Arts increased from 18 to 28. Philosophy, too, rose slightly, from...
...were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods tumbled from store shelves...
...sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...
Assembling all these pictures, and its own original unretouched photograph, the Times next day fell upon its rival. Heading the half-page layout: "HERE IS A STUDY IN PICTORIAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK,'"* the Times crowed: "All of this shows how a Times photograph was copied by the Examiner - an astonishing procedure, but not an unusual one. . . . The Times retouchers set a trap and caught - we might say, a copy...