Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians to notify the President of this real change on Prohibition and to advise him to meet it with new tactics. A Wet from Wet Toledo, Mr. Brown suggested a platform declaration promising the people some sort of vote on the question. For weeks President Hoover was reluctant to drop what he considered his neutrality and mix in on Prohibition. The subject, because it was so largely emotional, made him impatient and cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked the slogan "Bread, not Beer." He feared that any notice...
...main features of the program to decrease the emphasis on contests with outside colleges, Stevens said that the fact that Yale had suspended preseason activities would mean losing many opponents not under the Yale system. Besides this, he believes that the result would be a certain drop in early season conditioning games with the smaller colleges, which were condemned as "staged" in the report. With two or three weeks less practice, and no easier trial games, Yale would be outclassed physically and otherwise when it faced the strong teams of its regular rivals later in the season...
Harvard's lead up to the half-mile mark was an expensive one, and cost her dearly when her opponents settled down to a steady 34 and 35 to cover the last mile and a quarter. As the Crimson stroke was lowered the power in the boat seemed to drop also, and the crew rowed the remainder of the race at a stroke comparable to Syracuse, but without Syracuse's rhythm or drive...
Moscow papers spoke of Molotov last week by its other name, Autostroy, sparing the Premier's name from odium. Explaining the drastic drop behind schedule Pravda ("Truth") listed three major causes: 1) failure of Soviet metallurgical plants to supply steel on schedule; 2) bad food for the workers; 3) uncomfortable living conditions...
...English, the Foundation found, "students drop the study as freshmen, and literary knowledge tends to disappear. ... As for vocabulary . . . the effect of college . . . appears to be almost negligible and in some cases positively injurious. ... To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy. Possibly the fact that he takes the word assiduous to mean foolish may help explain his case...