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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Well Done! | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Small-time "saloon vaudeville" was having trouble, too. A bartender explained: "Quite a few clubs around, they used to have a couple acts in on Saturday night. Now they get a television set. It's cheaper, and they get all the business they can handle, so they drop the acts. It'll ruin that part of show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Television Set | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday night, I will drop dead. Then they will put you in jail for murdering me." Muttered one perspiring observer: "They will all drop dead before the Old Man does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscanini's Triumph | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...found is the backer of any school from Dropsie, with a total enrollment of 27, to California, with over 20,000 students-who does not consider his own favorite, on of the top ten institutions in America. and who will not fight at the drop of an unfluting adjective...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE i: Broadway Opening | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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