Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response [to the poll] does not follow, we will at least learn what is retarding the development of private flying...
...Lowell House, where a detailed check was made by the house committee, it was found that about 28 men entered the dining room in the first five minutes. The second five minutes brought 45. From this point, a graph prepared by the committee showed a steady drop. Approximately 50 per cent of the men ate during the first half hour. In the last fifteen minutes only 15 per cent were represented...
...overnight privilege considerably improved, if provision were made for the reception of books between midnight and nine o'clock. A delivery box secure at once against thievery and Cambridge rains, and equipped inside with a canvas slide so that the books would not be injured by the drop, could be built at a very reasonable cost. Surely this would provide a cheap and efficient means for the Library Council to increase the convenience of the Reading Room...
...founded in Alexandria, Va. in 1802. In 1825 it moved to Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capital and began a century-long career as purveyor of jewels by appointment to the most majestic Washington society. Into the Gait store the great ladies of U. S. history were wont to drop and carry off valuable jewels-as much as $200,000 worth at a time-without so much as signing a receipt for them. There wealthy hostesses picked out $20 souvenirs to give their guests. When Norman Gait died in 1908 his widow inherited the store. She watched over it as carefully...
...speedy Halfback Jim Carter received the kickoff on his own lo-ycl. line, ran it 90 yd. to a touchdown. His running-mate Duane Purvis cut loose on a "hidden ball" play for 52 yd., put the ball in position for a second touchdown. Paul Pardonner, stocky little drop-kick expert, booted an extra three points...