Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City of Aksum a week later. The emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Railroad passenger traffic and revenue have declined steadily since 1923. While rail passenger-miles fell from 47 billion in 1920 to 16 billion in 1933, high-way passenger-miles rose from 28 to 191 billion...
...made president in 1918, the same year his only son was killed in France. Mr. Cunningham has established a Yale scholarship in his son's memory in the high school of Evanston, Ill., where he lives, helped build a War memorial in Thiaucourt, France, where his son fell. The directors of Butler Brothers also replaced the Thiaucourt chimes, which had been destroyed by German gunfire...
...Kansas City, American Butter Co.'s President L. H. Smith astonished his friends by cracking open a normal-looking egg out of which fell a hollow cork out of which Mr. Smith took a note written to himself. To prepare the trick, Robert E. Phillips Jr., postgraduate student of poultry husbandry at Kansas State College, had busied himself anesthetizing hens, inserting in their egg ducts hollow corks containing notes to Mr. Smith. Finally a hen laid an egg with a cork...
...Milwaukee, a round of draw poker ended with four players showing respectively a straight, a diamond flush, a full house of aces over jacks and four kings. The lone kibitzer, Joseph J. Petran, 55. fell dead...