Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...squad was defeated 28 to 8 in a match with Andover Academy. After this meet, the Yardlings elected Leopold Archerman 2nd of New York City as their captain. The two victories were won by Knox in the 155 pound class and Rogatad at unlimited. The latter won by a fall...
...week's end, Mr. Whitley's resignation lay in the office of the Dies Committee. Mr. Whitley himself was in Florida. Congressman Hook, not quite sure whether he was a hero or a fall guy, looked fiercely in all directions. Congress cleared its throat and felt in its pockets for a fresh cigar...
...profoundly skeptical of biographies that presented Columbus as a fraud, a promoter, an exploiter of the achievements of others-especially, when he learned that the authors of such books, no matter how skillfully they could find their way around the archives, had no knowledge of the sea. Last fall Professor Morison set out to test his own generous and idealistic picture of the great Discoverer, by sailing a 147-ft. barkentine, La Capitana, eastward over the route Columbus followed on his return voyages; by sailing westward from Palos, whence Columbus set out, to the Canary Islands, thence to Trinidad, Columbus...
...ever came out of Royal Oak, Mich. The hour began, as usual, with soft religious music. Then, instead of the accustomed rabble-rousing baritone, came the voice of an announcer urging listeners to tell their friends to tune in. More music. Then the announcer, in almost a fall-of-Warsaw manner: "I am instructed to say: Father Coughlin will not address you today." Again music, followed by: "I am instructed to say: Pay no heed to idle rumors which will be circulated this week. . . . Probable events transpiring this week will enlighten you." Finally: "Ladies and gentlemen! Do not be alarmed...
After his friend Freud died last fall, 79-year-old Eugen Steinach puttered dismally about his Zurich refuge, giving hormone injections to barren cows. Deprived of his laboratory, he cried in despair: "What am I doing with my reactivated life?" Last week he tried to prove that in the past he had done great things. He published his first book addressed to laymen, an elegant volume called Sex and Life, garnished with pictures of dissected rats, rejuvenated dogs, and handsome Eugen Steinach...