Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drop in Classical Enrollment...
...year period from 1930 to 1940 showed a drop in Greek and Latin students. In 1930, there were 415 taking classics courses out of 3240, while, ten years later, an enrollment of almost 4,000 showed 384 in the courses. Despite the shift in emphasis to the natural sciences during the war, Latin and Greek boasted 204 students of a 2,475 enrollment...
...notable deviations from the norm. The 13 petroleum companies increased both sales and earnings by a resounding 27% over last year. In contrast, the steel industry sweated out a new record of 67 million tons but took a 9% cut in profits. Thus steel earnings continued their two-year drop...
Honest old Premier Ivanoe Bonomi read a statement: the change in Italy's international status, he hoped, would eventually apply to internal affairs as well. That, Italians recalled, was their hope when they had cheered the Roosevelt-Churchill order to drop the hated word "control" from Allied Control Commission, the Roosevelt-Churchill promise of greater authority for the Italian Government...
...tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another coin the tollkeeper pokes and pries about the car, helpfully looking for the lost coin...