Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
...that rain-drenched pin point of an island in the Shetlands, north of Scotland. Last week the dour-faced inhabitants, who make gaudy sweaters for golfers while they think about Death and the precepts of John Knox, found life almost intolerable. A mysterious disease caused thousands of sparrows to drop dead about the Fair Islanders as they sat grimly at their knitting. No local scientist could explain why the sparrows were falling...
Contests in punting, drop-kicking, passing and other fundamentals of the game will liven up the practice. All men will be eligible to compete for the Graduates Kicking Trophy, which annually goes to the man who wins punting honors in spring. Besides this medals will be given for winners in other contests...
...arise murmurs that all may not be well in some of the recently conquered territories. For the second successive year since the adoption of the Reading Period, the membership of the Dean's List shows a slight decrease in enrollment. The figures are far from alarming, showing only a drop from 18.4 of the total registration last year to 16.8 in the records just published, and the fluctuations are so small that they might readily be accounted for by temporary considerations such as the severity of examinations...
...spite of all these criticisms the acting is good, the voices are well handled, and through a long succession of obvious clinches, apes, lunatics, sliding bolts, and levers that drop floors into underground rivers, one gets a decided feeling of mystery which is well built up until the complete let down at the close...