Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolution between the peninsula on the one hand, the islands and Macedonia on the other, marked the first time he had ever fought to split Greeks. And for the first time he failed. Once more ''the shivering of the dying and the malediction of man'' fell upon Venizelos. The 71-year-old man, who fled last week to a swank Italian hotel in Rhodes with a private beach, groaned, "I am tired by the hardships and disappointments of the last few days...
...Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide), one arrow to each bear, each of which fell dead within six feet...
...sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse as orders to sell poured in from the South, from Europe, from the Orient. Near-panic spread to the New Orleans Cotton Market, to the Stock Exchange, to the grain market in Chicago. When...
...Streets of London in 1748 were as dark as country roads by midnight and much less safe. The winter darkness fell at four-thirty in the afternoon, and though the lamp-lighters went the rounds at six o'clock touching a flame to the open street lamps, in a very few hours what few lights the wind hadn't blown out were deliberately smothered by thugs...
Both Varsity and Freshman swordsmen fell before the onslaught of powerful Blue teams in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium at New Haven Saturday. The teams met in a double-header program with the Eli Varsity triumphing 16-11 and the first year men meeting defeat...