Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, 'we worked out the rates of remuneration of a certain class of collective-farm workers. It was an important and urgent document. We took it to the Vice Commissar for his approval. While, however, we were giving him our explanatory comment on the document, he fell asleep...
...especially proud of having wangled Britain's removal of a 6?-per-bushel duty on wheat, U. S. traders were inclined to believe that Canadian as well as Argentine dumping programs might negate the importance of the concession. Day after the treaty was signed, Chicago wheat prices actually fell. Lesser disappointments were registered by lumbermen, coal and metal miners, tanners, papermen...
...Samuel Louis Leffel a syringe of bright yellow fluid, and he jabbed the needle into the prominent elbow vein of the Negro standing before him. Then he moved down the line, gave injections to the next four patients. As he poised a needle above the sixth arm, the Negro fell to the floor in convulsions. Just as he sobbed his last breath, the woman behind him dropped dead...
...Lady (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was written by Leo McCary, Frank R. Adams, Frederick Lonsdale, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Howard Estabrook, Robert Ardrey, Eddie Moran. John Emerson, Anita Loos, Frank Ryan, Gene Fowler, Robert Riskin, Richard Connell, Sonya Levien, and S. N. Behrman-in relays as their predecessors fell by the wayside...
...full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...