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Word: fell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine of $5,000 and a year in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: The Missing Conspirators | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

When it was Yale's turn to fumble and Dick Paster fell on Burr's dropped ball on the 37, Whiteman's interception stopped short Crimson joy two plays later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BEATS HARVARD, 20--7 | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...were men in those days, for the records show only the one injury, "Keys was kicked in the wind, and the game was sopped for a couple of minutes," a contemporary account states. The only other casualty occurred in the third half-hour when Thompson of Yale fell heavily on the pigskin, which gave the ghost and exploded. Taking a realistic view of the situation, the referee blow the ball up and tossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Gridiron Battle Has Appeal to Outsiders And Alumni Alike Who Jammed Soldiers Field Stadium | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

Putting on a drive in the last few minutes of play, Lowell House won a 7-0 victory over a surprised Pierson College eleven yesterday afternoon, while Eliot House soundly trounced Jonathan Edwards 13-0 and Adams fell 7-0 before Saybrook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSES BEAT TWO ELI ELEVENS, LOSE TO ONE | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...upset fashion, traditional and typical of a 58 year-old rivalry, the Bulldog from New Haven snapped and caught short a fighting Crimson eleven this afternoon. As 55,000 fans were jarred to their feet, the underdog Yale team offset a series of previous defeats in one fell swoop defeating a determined but not yet developed Harvard Varsity Yale 20; Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE BEATS HARVARD, 20--7 | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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