Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosure, officials started the meet in a Manhattan armory. There a newcomer to the meet named Irving Folwartshny set a new world record of 58 ft. 1½ in. To track addicts this was of small importance. Equally unexcited were they over the broad jump in which the winner fell almost 18 in. short of the record, the 1,500-metre walk in which it was so difficult to tell whether the contestants were walking or running that the judges disqualified the first two finishers for safety's sake. They were only slightly more interested when Dimi Zaitz, whose...
...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
Ruki knew nothing outside the life of his village, and could not imagine wanting to know. But he fell an easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given...
Having defeated the New York team in the semi-finals on Sunday, the Varsity five man team found the Philadelphia representatives too experienced and fell by the score of 4-1 yesterday. Captain E. Rotan Sargent won the only match for the Crimson...
Seven million dollars-the largest gift to higher education since George Eastman left 14 Kodak millions to the University of Rochester in 1932-fell last week into the lap of Chicago's Northwestern University. To Northwesterners the- size of the gift was no more gratifying than the donor, the late Roger Deering of the third generation of Chicago's famed, harvester- making Deering family. Roger's grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah...