Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Ballot. The jockeying by the front-runners begins. Each will hope to leave the field far behind. Many of the favorite sons will drop out and go to their second choices. Dewey will probably lengthen his lead, to 360-plus. Taft might go to 250-plus. Stassen would slip. Vandenberg will begin to show up ahead of the other favorite sons, probably get up to 100-plus votes...
Compelled to drop out of the class of 1906 for lack of money to continue at the Annex and ill health, Miss Brewerton became a court stenographer, won an appointment to the staff of the Norfolk-Plymouth Superior Court in Dedham, reported some famous trials, including that of Sacco and Vanzetti, and on retirement reentered college...
...looked as if Washington playgoers would have to drop either Jim Crow or the theater...
Highest. The cost of living reached an alltime high in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The Bureau's index rose 1.4% to 169.3 (1935-39 equals 100), more than wiping out the drop caused by February's commodity price break...
...those 30 miles of falls and rapids that the true riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...