Word: fells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
...doors of the Senate Chamber opposite the Vice President's dais swung open to admit Alney Earle Chaffee. Slender, thin-haired, smiling behind his pince-nez, Mr. Chaffee is a Reading Clerk of the House. Vice President Curtis banged his gavel at Clerk Chaffee's appearance. Silence fell over the Senate. A Senate attendant announced in a loud voice: "Mr. President, a message from the House of Representatives...
Since William rose and Harold fell There have been earls at Arundel...
Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst earthquake of recent South American times, an earthquake that shook the needle of Harvard's seismograph in New England almost 6,000 miles away, broke submarine telegraph cables off the coast of Norway. The outward focus of the disturbance was a new volcano which had burst like an inflamed...
...been aptly capitalized by the present daily press. There are pictures, more technically perhaps, cuts in the modern class compendiums, and the graduate who journeys to Singapore can refresh himself of an evening with views of the Yard, of the crew captain, and even of himself before his hair fell. Externals again perhaps but they are elements of importance in the memories which give color to a college education...