Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paralysis, once the disease has set in. And even the power of these vaccines to prevent the disease will remain theoretical until a large community of children receive injections before the infantile paralysis season reaches its peak in summer. If the incidence of the disease then shows a marked drop below normal, all humanity may have good reason to salute Professor John Albert Kolmer...
...picture. This meant not only that MGM might be liable for damages to exhibitors who were forced to pay the Princess, but also that few theatres would want to risk showing a picture which cost $1,000,000 to make. Hence MGM proposed a settlement. For her promise to drop all further action in the matter, the Princess received in addition to her cash award a stipulation that hereafter Rasputin and the Empress will only be shown with a preface explaining "Princess Natasha" is entirely fictional...
...known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss The stars of heaven on its horns and graze Across the grassy ranges of the world...
...Depression low last week, coasted down to $25 per share. Gross revenues of $53,000,000 for the second quarter were practically unchanged from the year before. But profits were down from $12,200,000 to $7,400,000, which per share of common stock meant a drop from 83¢ to 41¢. Though the dividend was pared from $3 to $2 annually only last April, the quarterly dividend payment of 50¢ was not earned. The drop in profits was caused wholly by the rise in the cost of doing business. For the first half of this year taxes and operating...
...children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115°. But on his world junket the Argentine locust would have seen what sharp-eyed traders began to foresee last spring. There is not enough wheat growing in the fields of the world to feed all the people...