Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drop of over two per cent is found in the group of Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology, sloping off from $3 to 58. Greatest loser is Sociology, which has exactly half as many concentrators as the 42 last year...
Several other decreases were noted in the various fields. Losing one-third of its concentrators, in a drop from 15 to 10, Classics continued to fall in Freshman popularity. Fine Arts drops from 27 to 19 although the division of the Arts shows an increase. Math also suffers with a loss of seven of its concentrators...
Amos 'n' Andy are not what they were seven years ago, when the nation used to drop whatever it was doing to listen to them and echo such of their darktown phrases a.s "ow-wah!" and "I'se regusted." But they still command the top five-a-week 15-minute radio audience estimated at 40,000,000 weekly. For eleven years the faithful have heard Amos 'n' Andy over NBC stations, but beginning April 3 Amos 'n' Andy will move...
...past their peak, and all new material has been pretty well sewed up by Decca and the rejuvenated Columbia Broadcasting Co.-Brunswick outfit. Signs of the intense competition brewing can be seen in the plans of the latter to keep its thirty-five cent Vocalion line, drop the price of Brunswick labels to fifty cents, and put the Columbia classical series out at seventy-five cents. Looks as though the record public is going to be able to just sit around and have better music, recorded with more fidelity, at less money than every before...
...sharp decline in the public's spending throughout the U. S. last week caused TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to drop from 98.5 to 95.4. A contributing factor in the Index's third successive decline was evidence of a slight further expansion of inventory...