Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...month ago a mediocre physician, Adrian Martens, who had been sentenced to death in 1918 (and later reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about...
...energy to be absorbed if we strike an object while running 25 miles an hour is just the same as if we fell from a height of 20.9 feet ... it is possible to survive this impact although it is just about the shock limit for the human body ... we call this quantity . . . one Danger Unit...
...month voyage home on the frigate United States. Probably one of the most vivid escapes from death in literature, it is the scene which prompted Biographer Lewis Mumford to observe that Melville had now "faced life and death, not as abstractions, but as concrete events. . . ." But Melville never fell overboard in his life. Says Author Anderson: Melville suffered this vicarious experience in an account by a seaman who fell overboard from the frigate United States 18 years before...
...Denver, Colo., three-year-old Elaine Nybord started to play with an electric batter-mixer while it was mixing batter in a bowl. As it fell to the floor, it knocked her down, caught her by the curls, yanked most of them...