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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saying a good deal. This year neither the varsity, junior varsity, nor the freshman crews have been beaten going into this last race. A victory over Yale over the four mile route--and victories over Yale have become habitual for the soft spoken Bolles who has yet to drop a varsity encounter to the Blue--will establish Harvard as the first crew in the East, if not the first in the country...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Crew Prepares for Yale at Red Top | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...drop in any time: no punch, but some friendly faces and a going concern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Past Crimeds Asked To P. Street Punch | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

Within the year, U.S. drive-in theaters had doubled; more than 1,000 sprawled under the sky in 45 states, and, with at least 100 more on the way, the sky seemed to be the limit. Last week, while indoor exhibitors gloomed over a 20% drop from last year's box-office take, Variety reported a 10% boost in drive-in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All This, and Movies Too | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Aside from the novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Only a scattering of countries, mostly small, showed a drop in the number of cinemansions since 1947. Conspicuous among these was the U.S. Although their combined seating capacity had grown some to hit 11,796,072, there were now 18,351 U.S. theaters, 414 fewer than were grinding away two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Room for 48,750,147 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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