Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most striking figure in the decrease of Harvard enrollment is the number of veterans now at the University. In 1948, 7,131 veterans were enrolled. Their present representation is only 5,342 which shows a drop of 28.1 percent in a year...
...enterprising tax $5,000,000 this year. Further reductions, hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance the budget, as well as drop taxes, by trimming social-security benefits, coal and railway subsidies...
...make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...
Notre Dame (which is on the Annapolis schedule), another sign blazoned: "When do you drop Navy?" From the Army side came the answering banner: "Today!" Then, in one of its most powerful exhibitions of the year, Army gave Navy its worst drubbing in their 50-game series...
Such as understanding appears less and less possible. In the November negotiations, the French had to drop their earlier demand that England supply a balance in Continental affairs to any strengthening of Germany. They see--as do the Germans--that England and the U.S. are bidding against the Russians for German friendship. They think the stakes are too high to play, since it will take a lot of yielding to match the Russian bid of a united Germany. They suspect a willingness in Britain and the U.S. to rearm Germany as an enemy of the East...