Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spee was not without success. She gave Exeter an awful raking-practically demolished her superstructure, and blew one turret to bits. Finally she got at Exeter's vitals, crippled her speed, so that Exeter fell out. It was 10 o'clock. The battle was four hours old. Next for the light pair...
...shore's gloom. Just before dark there were two sharp clashes, and it was evidently in one of those that Spee suffered a final disaster: A hit at the forefoot, at bow and waterline, so that as she went through the sea she shipped water. At last night fell, Spee limped away, turned about, ingloriously backed into Montevideo and wearily dropped her anchor. She was out and all but down...
Forty Acres is the back lot of Selznick Studios in Culver City. Until the night of Dec. 11, 1938 it was cluttered with old sets accumulated during 20 years of movie making. These sets were laboriously filled with waste and other inflammable materials, well soaked with kerosene. As darkness fell, the $26,000 bonfire roared sky-high while seven Technicolor cameras ground away. The first scenes of Gone With the Wind had been shot. A flat representing the Atlanta warehouse district was constructed in front of the old sets. In the light of the dying flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood...
...trade centres, and much more weight than that for financial centres. In the chart they are shown separately.) In early 1939 the trend of turnover in trade centres followed a course roughly parallel to that of industrial production as measured by the Federal Reserve Board. Trade centre turnover fell 9% from the first of the year to the end of April and then began gradually to rise. The Federal Reserve Board index fell 11.5% from its 104 high in December to 92 in May. This was the sagging period of the spring when business had failed to measure...
...Pontotoc, Miss., two-and-a-half-year-old Keith McKnight fell into an empty 54-foot well. When his mother shouted: "Are you down there, Keith?", Keith replied: "Yes, and I'm dirty...