Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...really an absinthe julep. New Orleans masters put half a teaspoonful of sugar in the bottom of a tall glass, fill up with finely shaved ice, let the sugar dissolve, pour in 1-oz. (jigger) of absinthe, stir with a spoon, and finally add one ounce of carbonated water, drop by drop, stirring all the time until the frappe turns cloudy and thick frost forms on the glass. Similar are French absinthe frappes except for the carbonated water...
...thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...
...late spring. On July 1 the first of three wage increases totaling 10% went into effect. Last week as July reports began to trickle in, it was clear that not only net income but gross revenues as well were sliding. The first 15 roads to report showed a 7% drop in gross and a 42%, drop in net from July 1933. And though they intend to fight its Constitutionality, the railroads face additional charges of $65,000,000 annually under the Railway Pension Act passed by the last Congress...
King Vidor says: "I can't make a picture unless I have a feeling about it." His slowness in communicating his feelings during story conferences irritates writers and producers. He cannot write dialog or construct a story himself but has a talent for squeezing the last drop of emotion out of any well-written scene. He came to Hollywood with his wife Florence 18 years ago in a rattletrap Ford, stealing gas and tires on the way, bringing with him a camera record of the trip. Since then he has made such silent pictures as The Big Parade...
...tale goes on to show how Grip lost his life because of his vacillation. A condensed version for use at Columbia and Barnard contains such words as "horse" (harse in Maine, hoss in Boston, hawse in Texas) and ''fear and horror." in pronouncing which the speaker may drop an "r" out of one word or the other but seldom both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls...