Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FORTUNE'S survey (May issue) revealed that in two months Franklin Roosevelt's general batting average had taken an extraordinary drop from 63.5% of popular approval to 58.8%, that whereas in March 36.9% of the population felt like voting for him in 1940 if he ran, now only 33.2% felt like it. But this survey was compiled before the Hitler-Mussolini peace message...
...Lord, we thank Thee for the battleships and bombs, the airplanes and the poison gas. We thank Thee that Thou didst say: Suffer little children to come unto me that I might drop bombs upon them and blow them into Kingdom Come. We thank Thee that Thou didst die upon the Cross, not with a crown of thorns on Thy head, but with a gas mask on Thy face and a soldier's boots upon Thy feet...
Down in Eliland Coach Joe Wood has slowly been putting together the pieces of his Yale Varsity baseball team after a disastrous Southern trip, which saw the boys in Blue drop four straight games in the so-called julep circuit...
...teams figured to be a real threat in the 1939 race, Coach Jim Tatum's Ithacans, were roundly whalloped in dangerous Dixieland this spring and got back just in time to drop their League opener to an improved Penn to the tune of 6 to 3. In justice to the Big Red team, however, it must be said that injuries, sickness, and lack of practice have retarded their progress...
...trailers for spare horses, sedans for the judges and Promoter Parton. Eighteen miles out, the lone woman in the race was disqualified when a judge caught her riding in a truck while her horses peered out placidly from a trailer. When the going got tough, five other riders dropped out. Nevertheless, Promoter Parton and his pals had a rare outing, a lot of it in wayside saloons. But as the California line neared they began to drop out. With them disappeared Parton and the plans for a big welcome in San Francisco...