Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent thaws have left an inch of water on the surface, and unless the mercury takes a sharp drop bfore morning, the game is likely...
...getting dinner. But my hardest job lasts not two minutes but the better part of half an hour. My spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
...Prohibition has saved more lives than any other single policy of government. The drop in the death rate in the first seven years of prohibition has been equivalent to the saving of more than a million lives. Bootleg liquor has killed its hundreds, but licensed liquor killed its thousands yearly...
...such a thrilling subject: women in politics. Nor such a vivid story: yesterday, Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, said that women should drop feminism and sex-consciousness in politics and "get down to work"; today, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Rogers of the National Woman's Party retorted that she and her friends would stay "proudly feministic...
...showed it with an ironic comment to his visitor. Once the box had contained Prince Albert tobacco; now its contents were more interesting. A little rubber sack. A hypodermic needle. A broken spoon. An envelope of morphin. . . . Drug peddlers, delivering narcotics to prisoners on the island, do not always drop their orders from the bridge. An ordinary postoffice envelope, embossed with the head of George Washington, has a hollow behind the raised stamp...