Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, after a lively party, departing guests playfully locked Host Robert Cheators in a second-story room. When Cheaters raised a window to call for help, he lost his balance, fell to his death...
...loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath the car as the road wheels rose and fell, but the classic shape of the well-known radiator in front of me scarcely pitched. And watching my rear passengers in the driving mirror, I never once saw them leave their seats; they were merely lifted smoothly up and down, and not much at that...
...Depression has damaged the nation's $3,000,000,000 private educational plant, Mr. Tamblyn quotes from a U. S. Office of Education survey of 588 private secondary schools and colleges. While average expenditures between 1929 and 1935 dropped from $417,983 to $346,572, average total income fell even further, from $476,200 to $297,603. The average U. S. private school and college, in other words, is losing money. That is because, unlike other businesses, private schools can rarely balance their budgets without outside help, and gifts to the average institution in the same period dipped from...
Meanwhile Ruth Alleyndene had been painfully growing up in a prosperous household to which the Vicar preached for a time. She went to Oxford, became a War nurse, learned that her brother had been on the verge of being disgraced for his homosexuality before he was killed in action, fell in love with a cheerful, courageous Harvard graduate who was serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery...
...historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take her back to England and marry her as soon as her sentence was served, he got a berth on a whaler, found that he could...