Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the Isonzo, every cluster of peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
...owing not to a desire for leisure-on the part of the working population but was rather the labor movement's attempt to secure greater employment, Professor Hansen said that without unemployment there would have been no decrease to 40 hours and will not be any sudden drop...
...entry; all are looking on with great interest. By the way, Neale A. Gow has a full set of pictures of himself as an athlete and track star down through his life, and he would be extremely happy to show, them to anyone who dares to drop into his room. The Boz and Ned Bailey still haven't found anything to talk about (not even the common things of our existence like "Anyone else") after three full months of silent feuding on the fourth deck...
...clear what is to be understood [in orthodox physics] by 'position' and 'space.' I stand at the window of a railway carriage which is traveling uniformly, and drop a stone on the embankment, without throwing it. Then, disregarding the influence of the air resistance, I see the stone descend in a straight line. A pedestrian who observes the misdeed from the footpath notices that the stone falls to earth in a parabolic curve. I now ask: Do the 'positions' traversed by the stone lie 'in reality' on a straight line...
...half (during the depression) more than half the operating plants folded up. Big producers like Coca-Cola Co. (with some 1,200 bottling units), Pepsi-Cola Co., Dr. Pepper Co., etc. may hang on until the sugar shortage eases. But for the smaller companies the outlook is gloomy. A drop in production will wipe out their slim profits...