Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of skiers dissatisfied with local facilities, the Boston and Maine is running a train to Plymouth, New Hampshire Sunday morning, leaving the North Station at 9 o'clock and arriving back in Boston at 10:45 o'clock the same evening. Although the past two seasons showed a drop in passengers carried, the Boston & Maine has no intention of cutting the number of Snow Trains...
Professor Norton has again requested all freshmen who are taking Fine Arts III to drop out of the course...
Most Diesel engines have high compression ratios of about 16-to-1. The upstroke of a Diesel piston compresses the air above it into one-sixteenth of its volume until its heat is something like 1,000° F. A drop of fuel is then sprayed into the cylinder head, and ignited by this heat. The resulting explosion forces the piston down in the power stroke...
...Reimann and his assistant, Bernard J. Miller, obtained an ovum from a Negro woman in the hospital, placed it in a drop of clear white serum strained from human blood, suspended the drop from a glass slide and placed it under a microscope...
...such moments I can tell you for certain that this is the breakup, the cataclysm, the drop-curtain on the world. . . . In the Abbey they are still marking the places in the hymnbooks, oblivious of the fact that tomorrow we shall have forgotten how to read. . . . In London they are dancing round the Walpole. . . . In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination...