Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greyhound service in Boston and Philadelphia stood still. Elsewhere, in widely varying degrees of regularity, bus schedules were maintained, though there was a sharp drop in traffic. Busses still rolling entered the terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
Most observers felt last week that winter weather and Leftist knowledge of his plans had forced El Caudillo to drop a major offensive on the Aragon Front against Barcelona, that the Rightist offensive when it comes will much more likely be along the Mediterranean coast in the south: first on Almeria, then Valencia, then Barcelona...
Under this system, the first two years of higher education would be spent in junior colleges, and the latter two universities which would thus drop their freshman and sophomore classes. Recalling the commanding position of New England institutions he asserted that the new plan would effect them also, "whether they like...
Freshmen are smoking more and reading less these days, a comprehensive survey (of the Union news stand) reveals. There is a marked drop in the amount of reading matter bought and a corresponding increase in the sale of cigarettes, indicating that if Yardlings read at all they read tobacco advertisements...
...purposes of comparison the widely known photographic apparatus developed at M. I. T., which snaps a drop of water, for instance, in various stages of splashing, attains only 1-600,000 of a second speed...