Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good for the Country." Near Ford, Kans., 37-year-old Dale Steele, who farms 5,000 acres of wheatland, ruefully counted up what the 90? drop in wheat meant to him. Said he: "I've lost $54,000 in the last few days. That's more money than I was worth in 1940. But I figure it's just a paper loss. We haven't been killed, just wounded...
Decided Indic Philology 5 isn't for you? Today is the last time students may drop or add courses without paying the customary $5 forfeit. Tergiversating undergraduates should report to the Committee on Choice of Electives at University Hall 2 before 5 o'clock...
...Poindexter plans to drop a "thank-you" note in the mail for Professor Prosser, "who was a very thoughtful man to make us a wedding gift," and Mr. Poindexter has decided to spread his time between thinking up an appropriate image of Prosser to garnish his mantelpiece and deciding just what to do with another fiver that came his way last night...
...kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane attacks, Polish emigré leaders begged the Russians to send planes over Warsaw to drop munitions and food to the rebels. But Russian planes, which for ten days before the revolt had battled the Nazis in the air, remained on the ground...
...asked permission to send planes from England in a shuttle flight to Russia in order to drop aid to Bor's troops. Moscow stalled for a crucial month, finally allowed one flight on Sept. 18. On Oct. 3, the Warsaw insurrection collapsed. The Russians, Lane bitterly concludes, stalled before Warsaw long enough to let the Nazis kill off 250,000 Poles. That made it easier for the Russians to handle the rest...