Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
...CHIEF NABBED AS WHITE SLAVER Burlesque- SHE LOVED HIM BUT HE CHOSE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS AND NEARLY CLICKED ON BROAD WAY-GRAPHIC TRUE STORY The Bachelor Father- "THEY'RE MINE AND I LOVE THEM" CRIES WEALTHY LIBERTINE SEEING THREE HE SIRED Paris Bound- GIRL-WIFE RECON CILED, WILL DROP CHARGE Musical Ideal hot weather menu: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Three Mus keteers, Present Arms...
...Georgia have no physicians. Of the 65,000 babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...
...Some years ago two young men sailed a small boat, built on the south shore of Cape Cod, to the purchaser at Marblehead. As they rounded the Cape a thick fog came on, and thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock...
...Greek. Once he is entered, though his choice may light upon the most inartistic of sciences, he is preparing for the degree of A.B. Although the work-on which assignment to this category is based has nothing to do with the college, since the greater part of candidates drop ancient languages upon leaving school, the listing on Commencement Day remains according to work in a secondary institution four or five years before. The result is such a confusion of terms as occurs when one finds a student concentrating in Modern Languages receiving an S.B., and a man whose field...