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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Refugee Committee holds its rally tonight, one or two ferret-eyed ladies of the Press will probably drop in at Saunders to see who goes there. And several officers of the university should drop in for the same purpose, because the success of the rally should largely determine University policy when similar plans arise in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO GOES THERE! | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

...Spain are experiencing every day at the hands of Dictators. This should be a warning to America of what can, and will, happen as soon as certain foreign powers have developed their aircraft to such extent that they will be able to enter the stratosphere, come to this country, drop their destructive bombs of shrapnel and gas on an unsuspecting people and return to their country without ever being seen May Orson Welles have taught us a lesson in his portrayal of a sudden attack on America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

With 700,000 oppressed Jews to succor, this first offer was only a drop in the great bucket of the Jewish colonization problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: After Munich | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...drop "one of the most important experiments . . . in teachers' education." Cried New College's faculty: "The passing of New College will destroy the position of Teachers College as a leader. . . ." Snapped Dean Russell: "Any talk about ulterior motives is bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble at T. C. | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...mite below the 1935 peak of $3,300,000,000. For the first time in history banks are holding more cash than their total outstanding loans. In 1933 cash holdings were 48% of total loans; today they are 114%. This money, sitting idle, earning no return, has caused a drop in bank income from $556,514,000 for Federal Reserve members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Think That Over | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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