Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone who is wondering whether or not to enter a competition, the thing to do is to try it. Informal meetings of literary, art, and business candidates are held every Monday. Wednesday, and Friday evening at 7.30. New candidates are welcome to drop in at one of these meetings, any time during the year, to find out about the kind of work that interests them. There is no danger of getting in for a long grind of errand-running and desk-sitting that takes every spare moment. Each man sets his own pace and does work of his own choosing...
...Ethiopian soldiers began a war dance in the mud, roared, "Death to the Italians!" and finally became so threatening that some had to be driven with bayonets off the steps of the Throne. Ethiopian officers leaped about with such prized weapons as rifles, a favorite routine being to drop to the ground, pretend to fire, then leap up with a whoop. Finally, excited Dedjazmatch (General) Bayenna led a shrieking cavalry charge past the Throne and wheeled about to cry, "Emperor, fear not the politics of the outer world! The Gods are with...
Nowadays the San Carlo master rarely travels with the performers, prefers to drop in on them when least expected. On one such occasion he arrived in New Orleans during a matinee, met the company harpist ambling along the streets. The player tried to explain that the opera was Rigoletto, that the score calls for no harp. But Gallo was not to be placated. He saw to it that for the Rigolettos thereafter the harpist went into the pit, played...
Filing of the big Anaconda issue was significant for more than its size. The low estate of Anaconda stock in the black day of Depression reflected a not unreasonable doubt as to the company's ability to survive. Not only was Anaconda suffering from an unprecedented drop in copper prices; in the final stages of a long expansion program it had piled up bank loans of $70,000,000. During the past few years the company has whittled this figure down to about $57,000,000 but Anaconda's balance sheet is still enough to give a banker...
...merger of two typically New England Enterprises, United-Carr began its corporate life in 1929, when its gadgets piled up profits of $568,000. Today the company operates plants in England, Canada, Australia and Luxembourg, where its subsidiary is called Societe Anonyme des Etablissements Ri-Ri. Profits showed a drop for three years after the merger but turned upward after 1932. Last year United-Carr reported earnings of nearly $500,000. And by last summer the company felt prosperous enough to borrow...