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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederick L. Dunn '51 was trapped last month on the vertical wall of a 700-foot cliff in British Columbia. Below him was a 500-foot sheer drop to a pile of avalanche rock and above him a 200-foot granite face; he had nothing to stand on but a rock ledge two feet wide. The sun had set and a blizzard was tearing about him, and there was only one thing Dunn conld do. He rolled out his sleeping bag and went...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Mountaineering Club Climbs to 25th Year | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...Mate for Toodie. Plain Londoners slipped around a corner to drop a sentimental tear into a cool pint, and Mayfair retired to its cocktails to discuss another Cinderella. She was a pretty, Boston-bred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Ring for Cinderella | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...move's chances of success, Professor Haberler agrees with Professor Williams that Britain's internal welfare program should be less lavish and that her sterling war debt should be repaid less liberally. He also thinks this country sooner or later will have to allow its export volume to drop. "Otherwise we must resign ourselves to subsidizing the world forever...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...South, "hairy" seems to be the coming word for it on the West Coast. In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where You Goin', But? | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Beef? Beef prices have never been supported, but as the biggest cattle shipments in a year poured into Kansas City last week, and beef prices began to drop, CCC officials shuddered at one cowman's threat: "If they are going to support wheat and hogs, then by God they had better do something for beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Wild Harvest | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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