Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With scowls spreading on Communist faces, Premier Blum finally reached for a scrap of paper, wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered...
...battered hatbox, that he is going to kill her aunt. Olivia is also aware that she is falling in love with him. Climax of her disintegration occurs when she claims the sinister box as her own in order to dissuade a Scotland Yarder from opening it. Every possible dramatic drop is squeezed from the scene in which Mrs. Bramson becomes hysterical with fright at being left alone in the house, hysterical with relief when her adored "Danny" comes back - to smother her with a cushion...
Everyone on the squad has been encouraged to practice the art, and it is pointed out that its cultivation vastly increases the value of an individual player. Almost all of the kickers prefer to place rather than drop kick. Coach Harlow says that he has no preference what-soever, but that almost all players come from prep and high schools trained in the former...
This year the Indra will cruise comfortably about the West Indies, drop anchor off Yucatan and Venezuela for shore trips. Last year Headmaster Pond and pupils landed in Haiti, were promptly invited to a Governor's Ball. On board Mrs. Pond watches over the health of her charges, supervises the cook, only professional member of the crew. The Indra stays at anchor every morning until the pupils have finished their reading and recitations. Seaman Pond does not stand in awe of College Boards. Says he: "Any boy this side of imbecility can be prepared to enter college...
...Club invited William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that he had passed it, been granted a new license...