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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Board, however, will drop the matter of the sex questionnaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST CRITIC OF YEAR ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...fashioned Secretary of Agriculture and concern myself with scientific matters. It is a calm and peaceful kind of existence, but I don't think we are going to be living in the kind of world in the next two or three years where we can drop our agricultural adjustment program. We are going to ease off gradually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Half Hog | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...trail of another desperado last week Chief Purvis led Federal men and policemen to an Ohio farm, saw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd drop mortally wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lindbergh Law and After | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...East Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fizzling Oil | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...coolly started his second string against Nevada. Nevada made a touchdown. Sent in to save the game, St. Mary's first string made the score 7-to-6 at halftime. In the last few minutes of play, Nevada's centre Tom Cashill won the game with a drop-kicked field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 22, 1934 | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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