Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official address as retiring moderator, he predicted a new revolt in Protestantism, back to primitive Christianity. It will include, said he, "a revolt against a few socialistic or capitalistic delegates, at national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just what Moderator Babson had been inveighing against: It adopted a resolution* condemning sale of war materials to Japan, and one asking the Government to respect conscientious objectors in time of war, adjourned impenitent...
Hendrik August Wilhelm Deterding, third son of a Dutch sailor, went into an Amsterdam bank at the age of 16 and fell in love with figures, quit after six years because banking was too slow a way up in the world. He went to the East Indies, worked for the Netherlands Trading Society in Deli, Medan and Penang, learned how to make money for the Society, and quit to make money for himself. His next job was with a man named J. B. A. Kessler, who was head of a small concern with a large name, which was: The Royal...
...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
...Fifty-four-year-old Julie Bossy fell ill, engaged Widow Becker as nurse, died...
From the all-time high of 106 in December 1936, the Dow-Jones bond average fell to a low of 83 in March. Then the Government's desterilization program and the fall in commercial loans, gave bonds a rally quite unlike anything stocks have enjoyed, and the average jumped to 88, has since steadied at 85. Despite this pleasant development, the annual frolic at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club which Wall Street's bond traders enjoyed last week, cost them no sacrifice; for bond buying, like stock buying, is in the doldrums...