Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some rhymester, unknown to me, got a 35-year drop on Ogden Nash (who lately jingled the list of U.S. Presidents-TIME, June 14). We eighth-graders in San Francisco's Madison Grammar School were obliged to chant in unison...
...ring, he annoys foes with a shuffling, eccentric style that is really no style at all. He is apt to turn on his heel and walk away, drop his gloves or scramble crab-fashion to left & right. When Joe Louis tried recently to hire one of Walcott's old handlers to study Walcott's style, one of Jersey Joe's sparring mates burst out laughing at the idea. He explained: "Why, I've fought a hundred rounds with Walcott and know less about his style now than when I started...
...Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...
There was still no drop in demand. In the first quarter, reported SEC, the net sales of 1,070 U.S. corporations had risen 19% above the 1947 period. And there was plenty of buying power: in April, personal incomes had gone up $1.4 billion, reaching an annual rate of $209 billion. In some lines which had felt a sag in sales, strange and wonderful things were happening. A few weeks ago, for example, some home appliances were in the doldrums. But when the Iron Age set out to probe the slump last week, it was flabbergasted: demand had picked...
...barometer, the stock market has proved none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...