Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's stampeding Mastodons had to come from behind yesterday to drop Kirkland, 8 to 4, and gain a first-place tie with Winthrop in the intramural baseball league. Meanwhile, Winthrop edged Leverett in softball, 5 to 2, with Puritan Frank Bixler hurling shutout ball after surviving a two-run first inning...
...Downey is no more likely to go out of business than he is to settle. Even staunch union men drop into his place, though they always try to keep the pickets, Paddo and Con, from seeing them. "Sure," they all say, "it would hurt the poor lads' feelings...
...light of current production, the report seemed conservative. There are now 58,000,000 employed and the gross national product is running at the rate of about $195 billion ($166 billion in 1944 prices). The report expects that the present working force will drop as some of the overfull employment is eliminated. Nevertheless, to come up to the report's minimum projection, the U.S. will have to increase its output only 7% in the next four years. Compared to what the U.S. has done in the last six years under forced draft, this seemed small...
...thirty-five thousand dollars now being spent on remodelling is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the yearly earnings, but Cocoris feels leery about making too many alterations. The interior of Jake Wirth's next door has hardly been changed since the turn of the century, nor has anyone ever thought seriously of ripping off the Gay Nineties brass button and black leather effects at Locke Ober's several blocks away. Some of the waiters, who have themselves been part of the scenery for twenty years or more, are disappointed that he is not planning to take...
...last two weeks, the prices of farm products have declined. With a bumper crop in the offing, the drop may well continue. At best, if the Agriculture Department continues its policy of buying up food to keep it off the market, the support program will, in fact, be doing just what its critics now say it does, keeping prices up. At worst, unless the prices of manufactured goods drop, in line with food, the Government might find itself pouring out millions to support farm prices on a scale so vast as to be unworkable...