Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most U.S. grocery stores last week, 97? would buy what $1 bought a month ago. Nobody was certain, but most Americans were hoping that this slight dip in food prices might be the start of the downhill slide from inflation. Last week they got a jolt...
...Friday morning, after another sharp dip, U.S. grain prices rallied. Some grain speculators thought the worst might be over. Richard Uhlmann, president of the Board of Trade, thought it was safe to speak some reassuring words for a CBS broadcast. As he finished speaking, an assistant rushed up and cried: "The rally's oyer! Corn fell 8? while you were talking...
...post-war bulge is flattening. When an estimated 5200 students scribble through the Memorial Hall registration mill today undergraduate enrollment will dip to 5400, 200 less than in September, marking the first step on the College's long road to normalcy...
...censorable leers and laughs. Miss Goddard, stripped down within an inch of the Johnston Office, is tethered for torture by the Indians and writhes exquisitely. She also takes the bath which has for many years been virtually a DeMille signature. It cannot compare with Claudette Colbert's champion dip, as Poppaea (The Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what pressagents described as $10,000 worth of grade A asses' milk; but in its crude frontier way (a cramped wooden tub) the Goddard bath is effective...
...either of them gets hurt tomorrow, Harlow will have to use the still-shaky Nick Rodis, scrape the bottom of the Varsity barrel, and-or dip down into the Jayvee pool. Doug Bradlee and Rocky Stone will probably have ample opportunity to show their talent against the Indian tackles...