Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the drop hammers of the world pounding on the anvils of war, the U.S.A. is not the quietest member of the chorus. Last week the U. S. Army placed the largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
...sweeping dunes of his native sea coast, Oakland Hills is notable for its raised, table-like greens. This feature tends to handicap players like Sarazen, who hit low-flying iron shots, favors bigger, stronger players like Snead, Dudley and Guldahl who can use clubs with more loft to drop the ball on the table from on high...
...when Junior Coryell was born. Father Coryell built a play pen in his office and took Junior to work. Every two hours he carried him home for feeding and a change. When Junior started to school, Father Coryell moved his office ten blocks to be nearby so Junior could drop in at recess and lunch periods. When Junior graduated from high school he was made a full partner in the business and given Checkbook No. 3 against the Coryell family account. Father Coryell and he then took a correspondence school course in law together...
...newspaper readers, who got from them the notion that U. S. fancy-diving was becoming fancier than ever, was what Diver Jump did with her weapons after being photographed with them. The bow & arrow were wired together. The click of the camera was Diver Jump's signal to drop them. By no means a novelty, the "Diana Dive" was invented by Photographer Powell in 1932, when he had Diver Georgia Coleman perform it to publicize the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles...
...discovery about the drop in temperature between the surface and outlying atmosphere of the sun, was made in wholly accidental fashion, it was reported by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astrophysics, who with others, was responsible for the work...