Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties of the Right and Centre, represented in the Commission, whose support M. Caillaux has consistently sought, accepted his recommendations and they were passed by a majority. The Socialists, however, hung out for a capital levy, but were expected to drop that issue before the reconstructed budget is debated in the Chamber...
This is especially encouraging in view of the added burdens the grafting of the new system upon the old has entailed upon the students. They are still carrying the full weight of the course system, with the single exception that candidates for distinction may drop one course in their Senior year. They are carrying at the same time added weight of divisional examinations with all the necessary tutorial work that leads up to them. Students as well as instructors have known that the tutorial system was an experiment. They have had ample opportunity to test it, have acquired faith...
...from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally at least in imagination, as a means of putting oneself in another's place...
...every army on the march, there are stragglers. In a defeated army, there are many. The marching army of newspapers armed with daily crossword puzzles has seen another drop out of its ranks...
...mamma, Red hot mamma, You're the one I need. Red hot mamma, You're some charmer, Yes, indeed. . . . Yon make a music master drop his fiddle, Make a bald-headed man part his hair in the middle, Red hot mamma, Red hot mamma...