Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
True partition, with fixed boundaries and complete autonomy, still seems the one best plan, imperfect as it may be. The alternatives are further delay, suffering, and perhaps, bloodshed. Britain would be rid of Palestine, which up to now it has been trying to drop with well glued fingers, at the same time retaining a military base. The Jews would find the area of their future expansion defined and limited, but they would have a haven and a future. And the Arabs, while renouncing claim to a sizable area of the Holy Land, would unquestionably be able to negotiate a suitable...
...patient's blood sample. If the patient's blood lacks pitocinase, the pitocin-stimulated uterus contracts vigorously. But if the patient is pregnant, contractions are weaker; they vary according to the amount of pitocinase present. An abortion or death of an embryo is detectable by a drop in the amount of pitocinase...
Statistics announced yesterday by Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of the College, show a 21 percent drop for Freshmen since last term, with only 1290 Yardlings now enrolled. The ocC group, containing men whose classes have already graduated, now is 1286 strong, signifying a 17 percent decline since November...
...Morgan, which had financed the Van Swerin-gens and wanted to keep Young out; from the ICC (which Young insultingly called "that tool of the bankers"). By his lawsuits, Young got to be known as the "most litigious man in Wall Street, who would sue anyone at the drop of a subpoena...