Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest hit of all parts of the University, the Law School saw its enrollment drop from a peacetime norm of 1,400 to a wartime minimum of well below 100 students. Now, however, the attendance has climbed again to a current figure of 160, 90 of whom are first-year students. This increase is due largely to the growing influx of discharged servicemen, who are returning to the University in increasing numbers...
...scared." they told the grease monkeys, "we're doing this for the good of the country." The strong-arm men climbed aboard. The plane hopped off the field, cracked up after 300 yards. The two men crawled out uninjured, confessed that they had intended to drop anti-Government pamphlets on the reservists. The Government claimed they were Communists...
...unless more rains came, the flood crest would pass. The Seine would begin to drop down André's stony legs, and within a few weeks coal barges would again arrive. Said the Parisians: "The Zouave, being made of marble, cannot catch pneumonia or be unmanned. But we others, hein...
Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...
...part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked U.S. Steel's Ed Stettinius, had encouraged him to become a member of the Business Advisory...