Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether is not this condition is temporary depends on many factors. Next year, enrollment will commence the long shrink back to normal and the full-scale summer term will be discontinued. A great drop in student income will result, both in tuition and in room and board. If this decrease should be accompanied by a continued rise in prices, the College will have to move swiftly to meet expenses...
...charge, Congressman Taber produced an impressive list of valuable exports: machine tools, railway stock, electric generators, mining and industrial machinery. It was impressive enough to touch off a House committee hearing this week. But John Taber, as usual, was overstating his case. Shipments to Russia this year were a drop in the U.S. export bucket: 1.1% of the total. He also seemed to have his laws and figures crossed...
...Heidelberg Man was fresh out of two teeth. The famed primordial jawbone, hidden underground during the war, was now back at Heidelberg University, but with a couple of ugly gaps. The university wondered just who the dentist had been. "The missing teeth," declared a paleontologist, "did not drop out. . . . The Heidelberg Man had a wonderful set of molars ... all in perfect condition...
...After a while you get to know certain things and govern yourself accordingly. You do not, of course, just drop in on President Alemán. But once you are with him, he sits back for a long chat with you as if he had nothing on his mind but to solve your problems. He has an extraordinary amount of that Mexican charm I was speaking about...
Science International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...