Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present rate, he warned, "in a little over 50 years the number of pupils of 'scholarship' ability [will] be halved and the number of feeble-minded almost double, while the general average [will drop] by about five I.Q. points...
Yesterday's motions to drop the program, presented by the Committee on Concentration in War Service Sciences, was recommended to the Faculty by the Committee on Educational Policy...
...undergraduate members of the Mountaineering Club have decided to drop their books for a while and accept the invitation of the Ronne Expedition to spend 14 months in the frozen wastes of Antarctic...
...been rigged. So it had. The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job. Reason: the league wanted to "protect" farmers from a drop in milk prices, which, under a Federal-State marketing formula, are largely determined by butter prices. (The combined average of butter and skim-milk prices for the 30 days ending December 24 had to be over $1 to keep prices...
...price of food, which had reached an alltime high in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began slipping down. As yet, the drop was too small to bring many cheers from consumers. But it looked as if the peak in food was passed. The overall cost-of-living index had been still edging up in December. By last week, it looked as if it too might soon start down...