Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most valuable items in the exhibit is a copy of Pushkin's "Gabrielide," as printed in the first definitive edition at Peterburg in 1922. A blasphemous poem, this work was not printed during the poet's lifetime; but the verses fell into the hands of the police and Pushkin was forced to deny authorship in order to avoid severe punishment...
...rain that causes floods falls in the main valleys. The U. S. Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest portion, from 16 in. to over 20 in., fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point in upper Arkansas. The distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood of the Mississippi is not the torrential rush of water from...
...previous years, a number of promising candidates to whom National Scholarships could not be awarded because of lack of funds or who just fell short of meeting the standards were awarded regular College or Harvard Club scholarships. In this way twenty-three of the "runners up" were given freshman scholarships...
...this meant industrial tragedy to California's citrus fruit industry (save for oil, the biggest business in the State). The crop destruction had only one peer, the Great Freeze of 1913-In that year, according to tradition, "practically the entire crop" was destroyed. Actually, fruit shipments from California fell about 60%. Last week first guesses were that the Freeze of 1937 had ruined at least half the crop...
Nothing of significance disturbed the fratricidal Spanish war last week, as the cold weather further congealed the stalemate. It was of passing interest that on the Saint's Day of Alfonso XIII, which fell last week, observances were celebrated all over the White half of Spain. "He was made to walk the Via Dolorosa carrying the burden of all of us," sentimentally observed San Sebastian's typical Dvario Vasco. "He cannot walk back along this thorny path; but, a Spaniard before a Monarch, he will be the first to rejoice in a free, strong Spain." As the Saint...