Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombphlet. In Chicago, homeless ex-Army Pilot Henry Trochowski got desperate, had a friend fly over the city, drop 15,000 leaflets, hoped his propaganda would get him an apartment...
...reply to Mr. Wright, I would like to suggest that he himself test the "practicability" of the 18th Century cup whose fine and slightly flaring rim was skillfully designed to check the escape of any drop of liquid down its side. A thick edge-especially one curving "inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides and even makes a ring in the saucer...
...best of East and West. He does not believe the answer lies in the West going off the deep end into the mysticism of the East (as Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and other Anglo-American intellectuals seem to have done). Nor does he believe that the East should drop its own culture for Westernisms...
Although Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson recently announced that the Army hoped to obtain new men through the recruiting program, voluntary enlistments during July ran about 9,500 a week, or a drop of almost two-thirds below the fixed figure of 25,000 a week...
...take a piece of Greek and put it into English without spilling a drop, what pleasurable dexterity...