Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relay quartet avenged its previous defeat by N. Y. U., but fell short of outspeeding the batonmen from Manhattan and Boston College...
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse...
Three weeks later the U.S.S. Akron fell into the Atlantic off the New Jersey coast during a violent thunder storm (TIME, April 10, 1933). With her perished Admiral Moffett and 72 others. Sole surviving officer was Lieut. Commander Wiley who could no more account for the loss of the Akron then than he could last week for the loss of her sister ship in the Pacific...
...over the stage with the abandon of the late Texas Guinan. In accounting for Miss Bankhead's failure to shade her various denunciations of the preacher who wanted to bring Sadie to salvation by way of a penitentiary sentence, only to fall prey to her allure, most commentators fell back on the observation that Miss Eagels' Sadie was "mental" where Miss Bankhead's is "physical." But all were agreed that if Tallulah Bankhead, after her spectacularly successful years in London, wants to stay home and fill the niche that Jeanne Eagels left vacant...
...With my rope gone, the slightest movement would have thrown me off my balance. After three hours they were able to lower another rope from the chimney top and take me off that ledge. I wouldn't be here now if I'd become jittery when the other fellow fell...