Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singer who had lost health and voice. Friends sent her to Dr. St. Louis Estes, "N. D., D. D. S., D. C., S. P., Ph. D.," a dentist who had turned food-faddist. She ate the raw foods he advised and practiced "brain breathing control." She got well, fell in love with him, accompanied him on food-faddist lecture tours, bore him children here & there, grew rich with...
...went on to say that members "fell victims . . . to a false professional optimism." They idealized the workers, he said, without realizing that the revolutionary doctrines which appealed to themselves might not be those most compelling to the workers. When that failed, he said, they concentrated their attack on what they termed the "mis-leaders" of the workers; namely, the Social-Democrats...
...into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their woman ran to the Federal car, drove it back to pick them up. As the automobile disappeared westward a State policeman who had been hiding in the grass, uncertain which side...
...accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute to blossom out. It never did. Pilot Eaton fell 1,200 ft. to his death in three feet of water on the bay's edge...
...normal state the medium was not appreciably better than the chance expectation at clairvoyance, averaging 5.6 hits per 25 over a long series. She was also low at first in telepathy but rose to 13.4 (sustained for 625 trials). After that her faculty seemed dulled and she fell off steadily to the chance level...