Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backers asked 300 colleges to take over the best of these pupils and see whether they could weather the college courses. The implication lies that, unprepared for the college board examinations, the pupils may shine as students. Time will fell. They may flop...
...refused to play another card until Hal Sims had removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time...
...interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader Linke fell in love with a handsome fellow-Youth, went on walking trips with him that remained platonic but caused dissension in the ranks. She resigned, went to Hamburg to another job and a new beginning...
Three drubbings were handed the Crimson lacrosse team on their southern trip this vacation when they fell before Mt. Washington, the University of Maryland, and Navy...
After sinking a picked Bermuda fifteen 17-0 in the opening game of their stay in Bermuda, Harvard managed to eke out a tie with the team of the British West Indies Squadron, and in the last game fell victim to the strategy of Yale and were downed 3-0 by the Elis...