Word: fell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gust shook one of the curious triangles from its perch and scattered its particles into the dark, spreading a mist of snow across the lower panes. Then the flakes fell into step again and circled past his eyes as they had before. A big flake flew out of nowhere at the pane near his hand and violently flattened itself against the transparency. It held on desperately, its edges vanishing. Then suddenly it loosened its grip on the smooth surface and catapulted down along a stream of its own moisture. And more, smaller flakes blew out of the night and hung...
Soon after he became majority leader of the Senate in 1937, Alben Barkley fell asleep at the political switch. He allowed the antilynching bill to be brought up for discussion and got his party in a jam in the closing hours of the session. Last week he nodded again-with less serious consequences...
Whether Barcelona fell or not, however, the Government had its last-ditch plans: The fight would continue in northern Catalonia. If that were taken, the Government would move back to southern Spain. If that, too, fell, if they lost Valencia and Madrid, the fight would still be continued underground...
...National Education Association howled. This did not disturb Mr. Reardon, who proceeded to replace Dr. Smith's expert staff with "homebred" applicants. He sneered at Harvard professors, fought a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 16, championed a teachers' oath law. His critics fell silent, waited for a whirlwind. Last week it appeared that a hurricane would be Mr. Reardon's undoing...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...