Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also disappointed was Cleveland which, despite boasts, failed to pass the million mark. With a population of only about 850,000, it will drop from "fifth biggest" city to eighth or tenth...
...race it shows he does not think much of the other horses. While Gallant Fox closed, Tannery was moving along the rail and soon these two with Alcibiades between them were running like a three-horse chariot team. Crack Brigade came on behind them. Alcibiades was the first to drop back; that left it up to Tannery, but Tannery could not hold the pace either. Gone Away and Gallant Knight were going strongest now, and the jockies on both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant...
Lunatic or no lunatic, the "Mussolini of Iceland" acted last week like a statesman, dismissed Dr. Tomasson from his post as Director of the Icelandic Lunatic Asylum, brought pressure on the Icelandic press to drop discussion of the whole matter, pushed resolutely on with plans for the Millennial Celebration...
...Evanston, Ill., Robert Smith, 13, wondered if he could drop a lighted match through the small hole of a manhole cover over a sewer. He succeeded. The sewer gas exploded, blew Robert Smith aloft...
Silver. At the chairman's request and over the protest of Southwestern members the House voted to drop a 30? per oz. duty on this metal, restore it to the free list...