Word: dropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remainder of the evening WHCN will present a new kind of marathon show, this one known as Ballad Orgy, which will put on display about all the folk records in Cambridge plus any live talent that happens to drop around...
Patterson might drop in on his airline terminal restaurant at Denver, Colo, some morning for breakfast. He will find: 1) door usually locked, 2) one disgruntled, rude waitress on duty, 3) food greasy, unpalatable . . . 4) sanitation at ceiling zero...
...preventive medicine and, although she says that TIME'S employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot of it was that the innocent husband, like any TIMEman...
Dismissals. For Ramadier's Socialist Party the situation was embarrassing. Its official policy was collaboration with the Communists. But after an impassioned plea from Elder Statesman Léon Blum, the Socialist directorate decided on a break. It authorized Ramadier to drop the Communists from his Cabinet. Once more the Cabinet convened. Ramadier told the Communists: "Thank you for your cooperation." The Communists had permit" ted themselves to be dismissed...
...manufacturers' official position was that a high hide price and high wages did not add up to price reductions. But privately they whistled a different tune. They were not so sure that hides would stay up (they have already dropped some) with cattle slaughter 35% above last year. Nor could shoe prices stay high if sales continued to drop. Said one retailer: "Shoe prices will be 20% lower by July...