Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the hoped-for reduction in the number of members seemed a stronger purgative than the Constitutional Committee was willing to take, some iron-clad provision should be made to drop those members who enter the Council as they would a club. Under the new constitution a member who misses three successive meetings "may" be removed by a two-thirds vote. This provision should be made mandatory in all except the most extraordinary cases. In the past the Council has been most prodigal in overlooking the shortcomings of its members, and unless expulsion for non-attendance is made more binding...
...always play the full course, Doctor." Equally hateful of waste, he once drove a brand new ball into the rough, hunted it for ten minutes, finally asked his caddy what his cronies would do in a similar situation. The caddy retorted that they would look for a minute, then drop a new ball. "Huh!" snorted Golfer Rockefeller. "They must have barrels of money...
...autumn upswing, the Annalist index of business activity' rose from 79.3 to 94.8, highest point since the spring of 1930. In the first two months of this year the Annalist index lost about 40% of that 1935 gain, partly because of bad weather, partly because of a sharp drop in automobile production after the year-end. Having passed its winter low, U. S. business was once again on the rise last week, and, though flood conditions will undoubtedly distort the standard business indices for a few weeks, consensus was that the spring upswing would be more than seasonal...
...sometimes give credit for some competence! As a nation the U. S. cannot afford to pride itself on colonial enterprises nor on ability to run things much better at home. I shall enjoy your future copies much more if you could drop those superior caustic wisecracks on subjects you can know so little really...
There are hundreds of such students at Harvard. Some of them, of course, drop out. But a far larger proportion manage to fulfill the minimum requirements, even in the end get their degrees, but without ever rising to their opportunities of real intellectual development. Included in this group are not only the frequenters of Tutoring Bureaus, but all those who skip meetings with tutors (often to their delight,) and take the easiest way in the matter of writing theses, and following up some independent research and thinking...