Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Hamilton Sabin resigned as New York's Republican National Committeewoman. Her reason: "I want to devote my untrammeled efforts toward working for a change in the Prohibition law." Her friends awaited developments, well knowing that the slim, smiling, brown-eyed wife of Manhattan Banker Sabin did not drop, without finishing, what she took up. Last week came some developments...
...from good stock, if you must know!" She married him and repaid the insult by seeing to it no child was born. That beat Stroud, and she added injury to her revenge by giving him good cause to think her unfaithful. That drove him to throttle her, and to drop himself out of the window, thus ending a book which, considering that the author has published five others and should know better by now is not a very good book...
...close of the week the market, encouraged by a $232,000,000 drop in loans to brokers, rallied somewhat and selling of the Durant stocks became less pronounced. Meanwhile Mr. Durant, cabled in distant Paris concerning his reported losses, replied: "These silly and unfounded rumors have given me a big laugh...
...want to preach to you the gospel of being a snob--not allowing yourself to drop in speech, manners and general intelligence, and going to the level of the crowd that hasn't had the opportunities you have had. Belong to the crowd that does belong, or to the crowd that doesn't belong? That's the question...
...faculty committee, functioning through a secretary. Such a system would first of all impose an enormous burden on the members of the committee, since guidance, to be more than mere information-giving, must involve incessant and often apparently useless interviews. Faculty members giving such guidance would be obliged to drop nearly all their academic work. If the members of the committee were not active, the work would presumably be done by the secretary. Insofar as the secretary were permanent, accessible, and capable he would fill the qualifications mentioned above. But a qualified and full time salaried adviser