Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubens' wandering masterpiece, "Descent from the Cross," has been returned to the Fogg Museum of Art, but Mrs. Jean Bullitt Darlington, the owner, has refused to drop the $100,000 damage suit she filed against the University until responsibility for the disappearance of the painting has been fixed...
...sphere will be a submerged, boat-shaped float filled with light buoyant oil, which cannot be squashed. Below it, held tight by powerful electromagnets, will be enough iron ballast to make the submarine sink. When the Professor shuts off the current from a one-ton battery, the electromagnets will drop the ballast and the submarine will rise, he hopes...
...thing only by not buying something else. Thus, if rents jump up 35% (as they have in many places) the hard fact is that the renter will not be able to buy something else. Prices of many items were certain to rise. But prices of other items may drop...
...sell everything she could produce. But some of her greatest strides have been made in markets which the U.S. had long dominated, notably autos. Even the British expect present exports of 5,600 cars a month (only a dribble of 40 cars came to the U.S. in April) to drop to under 3,500 when Detroit gets into high...
Today is the last day upon which students in the College and the School of Arts and Sciences may change (drop or add) any course without liability for a charge for extra instruction...