Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cyanide eggs were dropped into a pan of sulfuric acid; at 10:39:30 the fumes reached the pig. It staggered to its feet nine times. At 10:40:05 it fell to the bottom of the cage. At 10:41:40 all reflex actions stopped, two minutes 20 seconds after the start of the execution...
...from three sides, and wave after wave broke, receded under withering Japanese machine-gun fire. The defenders' ammunition soon began to run low. Japanese planes then started dropping ammunition and food into Yihsien. With Chinese batteries blazing away this was ticklish work. Much of what the Japanese dropped fell outside the walls, helped the Chinese attackers...
...original pump was constructed in 1764 over a 35 ft. well to accomodate students in Hollis Hall. But so many others took advantage of it that about 35 years ago it fell into the last stages of decay. Several sporadic attempts to blow it up in 1904 and 1905 did not remedy the situation and the University was finally forced to remove...
Hendrick De Kruif and Hausserman shared the slab in the Leverett-Eliot game. The teams got almost as many errors as hits, and several outfielders fell asleep. Steve Madey was not on the Eliot mound, but led his team...
There is a good deal of aimless wandering about by an earnest daughter, pursued by both worthless playboy and promising young lawyer; by a crackpot son who gets sucked into the Communist maelstrom and tossed out again; and by a chivalrous judge who fell in love with Mrs. Thomas a long time ago without ever meeting her. Out of this not very diverting hodgepodge, for a while there promises to come to the fore a rankly sentimental attachment between the madame and her devoted, long suffering butler. But just as she vows not to marry again but to open...