Word: dropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...breeders about 40 of .the likeliest looking gilts (young females) and sows. Some are at Dale's, more than half at Gus's. In early April, at evening feeding, the Kuesters begin to sidle up to these elite pigs and delicately strip their swelling teats. If a drop of milk shows, the sow will probably farrow during the night. So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows...
...will probably be whittled down to somewhere around 18% to 20%. ICC will probably point out that the roads are not as badly off as they seem, because: 1) the railroads, hard hit by the wartime excess-profits tax, will get large refunds under the carryback if taxable earnings drop sharply; 2) fixed charges will be some $100 million less than in 1941; 3) railroad debt has been steadily reduced during the war years...
...team are Paul Coste, Charley Mulcahy, last winter's squash captain, Don Davis, a member of the 1942 Varsity, Bill Rickenbacker, and Jim Hubbell. The final composition of the squad is still in a state of flux, and new candidates are still welcome. All they need do to drop into Winthrop...
Whatever the cause and wherever the responsibility, tutorial has had so many enthusiastic gardeners in recent months that in several instances it has been pruned right back to the rhizomes. Biology, Music, Economics, and Geology, among others, have voted to drop it completely. Neither the new department of Psychology nor the department of Social Relations anticipates offering tutorial at all. The English department has restricted tutorial to Dean's List men who are honors candidates...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...