Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crawl into his office and shoot him in the ribs. When he revives in a hospital, the colyumist is unchastened but embarrassed by his accident. Judged by his jokes and witty sayings, Ricardo Cortez is a slightly better colyumist than Douglas Fairbanks Jr., but still not very good. "Drop in some day," he says, "we'll drink it over...
...None of us said a word while we were hanging there and they didn't make any sound when they lost their holds and fell. I saw them drop off, but I didn't see them hit the ground. I wouldn't let myself look. I heard them hit though-I couldn't help that. It sounded like a bucket of water poured out on the deck. You know how that is—:just a splash...
Questioned as to whether the wages of House waitresses would be reduced next year to make up the drop in revenue caused by reduced food prices. A. L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, last night vigorously denied that such a course would be taken. Mr. Endicott stated: "I have no intention of reducing waitresses' wages at the present time." R. L. Westcott, Manager of Dining Halls, had earlier branded the rumour as untrue. The Boston Evening American yesterday printed a story which alleged that the wages were to be lowered to ten dollars a week, apparently to make...
None the less, there is a place at Harvard for a monthly which will never drop to the levels to which the Advocate descends in its most evil moments, because it does not aspire to the heights which Mother Advocate sometimes reaches. There is a real need for a magazine which is not first literary, but first Harvard, which can publish controversial articles, such as are present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print...
...scaffold at Exeter in 1885 stood Murderer John Lee, noose about his neck waiting to be hanged. The sheriff gave the sign, the bolt under the scaffold's platform was withdrawn. The platform did not drop. They tinkered the bolt, but still the platform would not fall. John Lee was returned to his cell. A warder stood on the platform, the bolt was drawn, the platform fell. John Lee climbed up again, the bolt was drawn, the platform would not fall. They planed its edges but nothing worked. Unhangable John Lee's case was debated in the House...