Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patients was a businessman who became abnormally drowsy at 11 o'clock every morning, fell asleep at conferences and while driving his automobile. Dr. Alvarez: "I had him test, one by one, the things he ate customarily at breakfast, and eventually we found that it was the cream in his coffee. Eliminating the cream ended the trouble. It is absolutely startling to see how food influences the brain...
...Publisher Gollancz astounded his competitors with the vigor of his advertising, revolutionized England's literary publicity with boldfaced, importunate copy. No slouch on the mechanical side of the business, Publisher Gollancz took a lesson from German Tauchnitz, standardized the binding and typography of his product. Since the world fell on troubled times, he has had the wit to add to his large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made his firm the semi-official organ of Britain's intellectual Left. Although Publisher Gollancz says he expects to do no better than make ends...
Immediately, as a result of the new rules, the number of Honors men fell to about 25 per cent of the class, while several "extraordinary cases" were still found, so that the number of degrees summa cum laude was about 2 per cent of those receiving Honors. The total number of degrees remained about the same as in the preceding period...
...Manhattan fortnight ago President David Dubinsky of the huge Ladies' Garment Workers' Union publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist Party, declared himself for President Roosevelt. Last week the progressive American Federation of Hosiery Workers fell in step with its 60,000 members. Convening in Philadelphia, delegates approved (113-to-47) a resolution that "wage-earners have no other practical alternative than to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential election...
...Victorianese, he calls "M.") developed a real feud. The quarrel was finally settled when Huxley insisted on a showdown before the captain, disproved all M.'s chimerical innuendoes, forced him to sign a retraction. In Australia, where the Rattlesnake based for several exploratory cruises, Huxley found pleasanter society, fell in love with a Miss Henrietta Heathorn, and diarized about her at a great rate. They were engaged eight years, finally married in England...