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Word: dropping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archie") Vandegrift Jr. (son of the Marine Corps commandant), said yesterday: "I used to fight with these naval aviators over air support, but I've no argument with them any longer. They've been superb." So has the artillery ashore. "As long as they don't drop any shells in our own lines, the men have confidence in it," said Vandegrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: It Was Sickening to Watch ... | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity of breathing. If he did not have to turn his head now & then, there would not be that slight, rhythm-breaking drop of the left shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big splash | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Mirage | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Amarillo: "Give me any kind of night work. It's the evenings that get me. I want to work till I'm so tired I'll just drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Think of the Moment | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...biggest radio stations in the country will drop its commentators next week. Thereafter Los Angeles' KFI will broadcast only its own "analysts," enjoined from offering "personal opinions and interpretations." (Two cautious commentators will become "analysts"; seven livelier commentators will be silenced.) KFI's manager William B. Ryan explained that he was "fed up" with commentators who contradicted one another, was against their commercial sponsorship, skeptical of various commentators' qualifications as "experts," wanted objectivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Matter of Opinion | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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