Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some observers saw a bit of poetic justice in the race. Frannie King, first Harvard leg, fell flat on his face from what appeared to be a deliberate foul by the Yale runner. King regained his feet and raced on, yards behind...
...kill" was almost too literal but poetic justice must be served--two yards from the tape, as Lightbody drew up even with his opponent, Millet stumbled and fell in a sprawl on the pock-marked boards. The time was 3:32, not brilliant because of the mishap in the first quarter...
Mystery surrounds the circumstances under which the first year law student met his death. Police and friends are completely at a loss to tell why he jumped, fell, or was thrown into the Charles River. The doctor performing the autopsy stated death was accidental and that the backbone was broken by the fall. At noon, Saturday, November 13, he was apparently in good spirits and in good health as he joked with his roommate and friends in Perkins Hall...
...pure red one they used the flag of Turkey, with its crescent stained out in blood. The frigates lying in port joined the revolt. From Madrid the central Republican Government, run by high-minded incompetents, badgered by conspiracies Right & Left, sent troops against the city. Six months later Cartagena fell, before it could get its socialist experiments running or, as one of its leaders proposed, declare its allegiance to the U. S. But suppressing it turned out to be too much for the staggering Republic, which fell soon after...
...square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos had betrayed him. At last this upright, self-respecting gentleman spent his nights prowling like a baffled thief around his own house, rummaging through his wife's papers for evidence of her guilt, while the shells fell on the doomed and starving city...