Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident at this juncture Benito Mussolini helped to restore Greek tranquillity. With British war boats maneuvering as silent threats to Italy in Mediterranean waters including those of Greece, Il Duce, without asking Greek permission as Britons do, suddenly had three Italian war boats drop anchor in three major Greek ports. Local officials frantically wired Athens and the statesmen and militarists of Greece dropped their own feuds to unite in a loud squawk of protest...
Those cut will not, however, drop at once into oblivion. The best of them will be formed into the Jayvee scrubs and will be put under Henry Lamar's tutelage. There they will be in constant contact with the Varsity, as one might...
Only a little over $300 has been colected from that third of the upperclassmen who registered Saturday according to a statement released by the Student Council last night. This is about $200 less than the amount received in Memorial Hall last year and the pledges show a proportionate drop...
...consumers' taxes represented only 30% of the national revenue. Today they are 60%, and even with the passage of the recent Tax Bill the proportion of these consumers' taxes will drop only...
...that time packed so much punch in New York City politics that Tammany had kowtowed to him for over 16 years. The speaker was a young Governor named Alfred Emanuel Smith, serving his first term. Referring to Publisher Hearst, Governor Smith began: "I know he has not got a drop of good, clean, pure red blood in his whole body. And I know the color of his liver and it is whiter, if that could be, than the driven snow." The Hearst newspapers were flayed for deliberate "lies,'' for "the gravest abuse of the power of the Press...