Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left arm which swelled, became useless. Game was so scarce he had to lie on his back, lure seals, which he munched raw, by waving his feet in the air. Three dogs froze and Adventurer Irwin lashed himself in the traces to pull the sledge. One day he fell through the ice, twisted his knee. Starving, he killed a dog, ate it. became deathly sick. Two days later he reeled into an Eskimo village where trappers from Baker Lake found him. First thing Adventurer Irwin wanted last week was a telegraph blank. Said he: "I guess Mother is worried about...
...duty of informing the Administration of the Chamber's will fell upon smiling, long-nosed Harper Sibley, the Chamber's new head and a personal friend of President Roosevelt since student days at Groton and Harvard. An affable Rochester (N. Y.) capitalist with his family's traditional interest in that city's Security Trust Co., President Sibley is a miner, a lumberman and a grand-scale farmer. He likes to work with the laborers on his 4,000-acre ranch at Santa Rita. Calif., or on his 350-acre farm at Sibleyville, near Rochester. In Illinois...
...seventh time in two years to the firesides of "My Friends." Sounding a little querulous at first, he soon became strong, brave, confident as ever. ¶ Housing Administrator James A. Moffett, having resigned (TIME, April 15), indiscreetly paid a farewell call at the White House. Once more he fell prey to Franklin Roosevelt's persuasion, announced that instead of resigning he would take a three months' trip around the world, then return to his job in Washington. ¶ Since the World War, U. S. Presidents have grown accustomed to dunning other nations to pay their debts. President Roosevelt...
...boast that Boston Latin School "dandled Harvard College on its knees." Only five years younger than the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Latin School was founded in Philemon Pormort's kitchen to get the colonists' boys ready for Harvard, which opened a year later. Within a year Master Pormort fell into the heresies of Anne Hutchinson, had to be sternly sent away. In 1714 the school stood on what is now the lawn of Boston's City Hall and Benjamin Franklin was a pupil. In the years before the Revolution its Master was a Loyalist named John Lovell...
...Manhattan, a woodcock flew into a skyscraper's electric sign and fell outside an office window of the National Association of Audubon Societies...