Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both common stock and government bond rises have been balanced almost entirely by a sharp drop in other long-term bond holdings...
...Several times," Miss Silva-Santiago added, "she said to the other girls in the dormitory that she wished the world would come to an end." Miss Flint's other acquaintances recalled that she had been forced to drop some subjects from her History and Philosophy of Religions major because of the pressure she felt...
...Drop in the Bucket." Never had Nationalist China more anxiously craved a sign that the U.S. recognized and responded to China's critical hour. What Chinese got, by way of a sign last week, was Secretary of State George Marshall's testimony before a Senate committee that, in his opinion, China would need economic support at the rate of $20 million a month, beginning next April and continuing for some 15 months...
...pigeonhole, it seemed too little, too late. Some grim Chinese, who compared Marshall's sum to the $500 million a month he proposed to spend to buttress Western Europe, decided that the time had come to write off the U.S. entirely. Said Chinese Vice President Sun Fo: "A drop in the bucket.. . . I've always had a hidden suspicion that American friendship was not dependable...
...comics of the Morgan school: all the brash, postwar lads whose specialty is making fun of radio and its sponsors. Things looked far from bright for three of the most prominent members of the toss-it-away brand of comedy: 1) come January, the American Tobacco Co. will reportedly drop Jack Paar (TIME, Sept. 29); 2) Funnyman Robert Q. Lewis (TIME, June 23) is still a liability to CBS, with no sponsor after nearly seven months on the air as a sustainer; 3) Alan Young, the Canadian wit, after starring for over two years on his own program, has been...