Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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European Witness is a ditty bag of impressions collected by Poet Spender on a tour he made through Germany (with a dip into France) for the British Government in 1945, "to inquire into the lives and ideas of German intellectuals, with a particular view to discovering any surviving talent in German literature...
...white-capped waters off Havana's Morro Castle, 28 Star Class yachts last week competed in the first big international regatta since 1939 - but the dip ping of sails and careening of tiny hulls drew no audience ashore. Sports-loving Cubans were mostly off at baseball games...
Since then (except for a brief dip in the spring of 1938) LIFE had grown steadfastly. It grew even though it ignored the kind of talking down that mass-circulation merchants like Beaverbrook and Hearst thought was good for their readers. It ran cheesecake-but also Charles A. Beard's The Republic, condensed in ten installments. Well aware that not every picture was worth 10,000 words, its editors made room for editorials, closeups, "text pieces" by men of letters (Winston Churchill, John Dos Passos, Reinhold Niebuhr, et al.). Still popularly regarded as a "picture magazine," LIFE now averages...
There were few cheers for School Tie, the winner, and no boos for Mahout. The stunned crowd viewed the performance with deep respect. Nothing like this had happened since last May, when a well-backed jumper left the steeplechase course at the third jump, and went for a dip in the infield lake...
Graebner's background is not entirely typical of G.I. students (most of whom have no profession yet) but his budgeting problems are. A University of Chicago School of Business survey reported last week: "Veterans attending college in the Chicago area cannot live on their Government allowance, but must dip into savings or take outside jobs to meet expenses." The figures: the average single man spends $115 a month, the average married man $165. The Government allowances...