Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered that they could defeat death by drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each...
...blocked. In Hoihow, firecrackers popped jubilantly. Next day the celebration fizzled. The Communists had won again. On the sixth day after making their beachhead, the men of Lin Piao's Communist Fourth Field Army marched triumphantly into Hoihow. With what remained of his 160,000 defenders, Hsueh Yueh fell back hopelessly to Hainan's south coast...
...sharp sword of schism fell last week upon the Christian Science Church. Keen-eyed Scientists found the news in a small story buried among the ads on page 2 of the Christian Science Monitor: "The Mother Church ... in Boston, Massachusetts, received from the Fourth Church of Christ Scientist, Rochester, N.Y., notice of its withdrawal as a branch of the Mother Church...
Logan Pearsall Smith was one of the last of an almost vanished type: the gifted dilettante who lives on inherited income and putters about the suburbs of literature. As the child of zealous Philadelphia Quakers (his father was a glass manufacturer), little Logan fell in love with religion at the age of four and for the next few years became, as he later put it, an "odious little prig" who would clamber aboard horse cars handing out tracts and asking people if they had been saved. Before long he lost his faith; never again would he so thoroughly commit...
Thorpe Kelly fell on the ball behind the M.I.T. goal line at 15 minutes of the first period for the first Crimson try. At the 22-minute-mark Sam Adams broke through on a 35-yard run, and lateraled to Sam Butler, who scored the second three points. The play covered about 50 yards. John Cotter added the two-point conversion...