Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guarantee Fund, a sort of fiscal flying buttress in the Young Plan, was cut out of the negotiations last week by Mr. Hoover, whose State Department announced: "We understand that the French Government now indicates that it can drop this from the discussion." Only a few hours earlier the obligation of France with respect to the Guarantee Fund* had brought the parleys near to a dead...
...happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from cup. He studied the green, tapped the ball with the air of a man accustomed to miracles, watched it drop for another birdie, another...
...year (1929) to President Eugene Gifford Grace? Minority shareholders echoed Mr. Eaton in surprise and indignation. Chairman Charles Michael Schwab, who had issued the bonuses in his discretion (but never taken one himself), pleaded with tears in his eyes and a catch in his voice for the shareholders to "drop it, drop it" (TIME, April 27). Last week, having altered the bonus system, he explained: "It is not necessary for me to say that the statements I have made . . . have been made with all sincerity. I believe today . . . that the system is sound. ... At the same time I must recognize...
...rise over a harbor the warm morning after a still, clear night, Professor McAdie suggests that fireboats squirt their streams at the mist. "Electrified spray from these mighty nozzles would not only wash a channel through the fog, but cause the fog droplets to coalesce and agglomerate and drop as a drizzling rain. The squirting would not be very expensive...
Back in Maysville, Okla., Brother Arthur Post ran to and fro between town and farm with news of the Winnie Mae's progress, but the pilot's elderly parents were too busy with cutting hay on their 90-acre farm to drop their work. In a general way they were proud of Son Wiley, although "he didn't have our blessing when he started out in this flying business." But the simple fact of his safety meant more to them than the geography of Siberia...