Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly be in sympathy with the moral or spiritual aims of either Hitler or Hirohito. Orderly, she is excruciatingly shocked by the international disorders of this, her second, World War. Thrifty and patriotic, she must hang on to her and her country's fortunes to the last drop of her Dutch blood. Helpless, about all she can do is keep one face East, one face West, and hope...
...Canton, and Hong Kong became a comparatively dead city. It is still one of the most beautiful ports in the world-its harbor is like a Wedgwood plate full of sugar buns-but it is now a negligible trade centre, and Britain plans to abandon it at the drop of a bomb...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the most loyal Iowa rooter expected nothing more than a second-division Conference place for the Hawkeyes. Last week Iowa was in second place, with a chance to tie Ohio State for the Big Ten title...
...last week for the first time since the middle of October. They felt safer because their business was falling off-weekly carloadings were down from October's peak of 861,198 to 785,901. The slump spelled no disaster to U. S. business, for it was a seasonal drop (adjusted...
...drinking and swearing, it is getting so a respectable citizen who wants to drop into one of Hanover's restaurants during houseparty time for a quiet scrambled eggs and coffee cannot avoid being embarrassed by the language and mental condition of the girls who are guests of the town over the weekend...