Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes shot down a dozen or more Red attackers, whose pilots expressed surprise. They had been told it was safe to bomb anywhere in Finland. One of the pilots taken was an 18-year-old girl. Three fliers who fell into the hands of a mob of Finnish women & children were soon killed with axes, pitchforks, shotguns...
...Karelian Isthmus just north of Leningrad, a Russian artillery barrage and tank attack preceded the infantry advance. Unlike the Poles,*the Finns were ready with anti-tank guns and heavier field artillery. They claimed to have smashed up 54 juggernauts in five days as they fell back on their fortified Mannerheim Line. At Terijoki, seat of the new Red puppet Finnish "Government" (see p. 26), they left land mines which they claimed blew up thousands of Russians...
...Angeles, John H. Mills, 70, classed as physically unfit, pleaded with the school board to give him back his job, said, "I'm as sound and healthy as I ever was . . . ," so saying, fell dead...
Losing only one match, the Varsity wrestling team downed a weak M.I.T. squad Saturday afternoon, 33 to 3. The inexperienced Freshman grapplers, however, fell before the Engineerlings by a 23 to 16 count...
Princeton followed directly on the heels of the Teehmen with 48 votes or 13.3 per cent while Yale trailed, garnering 11.8 per cent with 42 votes. A residue of 7.4 fell outside the four most popular colleges with 22 girls writing in the names of their favorite men's institution, including such far-flung sports as California Institute of Technology and Rollins...