Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of as a shiftless, spendthrift, boomtime phenomenon, had in the past few years reached appalling proportions. Although it is commonly supposed that the typical college student enters as a freshman and emerges from the same college with a diploma four years later, actually today most students transfer or drop out before commencement day. Only one-third receive degrees in the college in which they started...
...would almost certainly attempt to arouse "town-gown" feeling again. Thus, in the final analysis, the university is confronted with the dilemma of whether to defend freedom of thought and increase local animosity or to ignore officially the struggle over this bill and let the matter drop...
Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...
...F.R.B. Index of Industrial Production and seven months before stock prices reached their last dizzy peak. The TIMEline did indeed give the "first evidence" in that year of high and misguided hopes-but speculators, who might well have gotten out of the market after the TIMEline's sharp drop in April, would have missed the 30 to 40 point rise that took place subsequently. Chart readers would have noted that the TIMEline in September 1929, before the market crash, broke through its previous bottom (made in August...
...always write my own gags; they are absolutely new, and so is the theme of the play. Just drop me a line and we'll arrange about contracts and picture rights...