Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...With the '82 , '83 and '84 men, it was almost a matter of principle to support the society and to buy through it what they could. They knew what Cambridge prices were before the existence of the society, and they realized that if it were to go under the drop of twenty per cent. caused by the society in Cambridge prices would soon be at an end. But the undergraduates of to day, with no experience of the normal Cambridge prices, feel no such sentiment leading them to back the society. The men who count dollars and cents...
...object is to "break up" the entire catalogue list every day. The students, played upon long benches, will be rapidly projected by an automatic application of pins. The professor will fire a question at each one and undoubtedly get the drop in every instance...
...reminded that the lives of the students under their charge were in imminent danger in case of fire, had a trial of fire escapes to appease the clamors, then put staples in the rooms on the top stories, and, having thrown this sop to Cerberus, let the whole matter drop...
...great advantage when adopted by one side only, and could not prove very effective otherwise. Much cannot be said in favor of the change, it leads to loose scrimmaging which means excessive roughness in the game. Another improvement, and one more properly so-called, is that in drop-kicking and punting by the whole team, and particularly those playing behind the forwards. No change has been made in the score by points. The present system and the value of the particular plays is generally approved...
Tutoring in Pol. Econ. I. G. Drop pers...