Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress, which includes more lawyers than any other professionals, did not choose to follow his gratuitous advice. Into two categories fell the legal-minded Congressmen who propounded opinions...
...Supreme Court would do their duty as they saw it. Yet somehow nearly everyone had overlooked the obvious fact that the nine potent, grave and reverend judges would first take a good look at that duty. Last week when the Court in unmistakable fashion began that scrutiny, business fell into a dither, Congress chattered, the Brain Trust fretted and the Attorney General blushed...
After piling up a 3-point lead by brilliant play in the first period, the Varsity pucksters fell before the accelerating onslaught of the Boston Olymic Club's sextet at the Arena last night by a score of 7-4. The second and third periods were marked by sloppy work and offside plays. The Crimson suffered only one penalty while the Olmpics were taking seven...
...Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days the courageous band held out and fell only after many had been rescued by a French cruiser...
...Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany died last week a second orangutan named "Mickey," which had been so devoted to the superintendent that it was called his "private secretary," pined away...