Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
Europe's newest dictator, King Carol II, squeezed the last squealing drop of press freedom from Rumania last week. That it was an easy thing to do, he knew. The last anti-Fascist Italian editor has long since been silenced. Few Germans today ever see an anti-Nazi publication. A smattering of troublesome pamphlets is still smuggled in the bottom of wheat barges ascending the Rhine from Holland, and such journals as the inflammatory bi-monthly Die Schiffart (Shipping) are printed in New York, hidden in the cargoes of German ships by U. S. longshoremen and sneaked into Germany...
...feel that such passages accomplish, or at least adumbrate the sea-change implicit in Poet Pound's thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
...decline in the price of stocks within three months beginning last August (1 brought the markets to the lowest point of all time, 2 was about the same as the decline in 1929, 3 brought the market to the lowest point since 1929, 4 was comparable to the drop in 1921's was the swiftest decline of U. S. business and finance in thirty years...
Even in the Quad League the Crimson's chances of retaining the championship were all but obliterated by the Princeton tie. They must win not only their three remaining games, but it is also essential that Dartmouth drop their two last games, one of which is against the Crimson...