Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performance of last year's. Freshman cross country captain, Joe Leeming, who has been on the injured list all fall. Leeming was running well at the halfway mark, but at the beginning of the second loop, his knee knocked out of him again and he had to drop out of the race...
...noon today a light plane, piloted by an editor of the Daily Dartmouth, will fly over the Harvard Yard and drop a load of toilet paper. The plane was used yesterday for aiding fire-fighters in New Hampshire, so plans may be subject to change, but if you don't see it today, expect it tomorrow...
...worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting enough innuendo and thigh-gazing into the proceedings to make even the merry widow drop her mask. Snatching at apron strings and pinching fannies, Bobby Clark makes no bones about his slapstic; but the very fact that he enjoys himself wins over the audience...
Choruses of Dixie sprung up at the drop of a northern accent. Dixie, in fact, won out over Hey-bop-a-re-bop as the most popular song of the weekend. At the football game, its initial chords elicited correct posture even in the Negro stands behind the end zone. At the pregame rally, Dixie brought every Southerner to his feet. The Cavalier football squad remained seated...
Bitter End. The speculators had counted on an easing of the shortage Oct. 1, the beginning of the cocoa crop year. Looking for a price drop, they had sold cocoa short. But when no British and Brazilian cocoa was forthcoming, the speculators had to buy cocoa already in the U.S. This, some traders estimated, accounted for at least 10? in the price rise and it played straight into the hands of the British. They are expected to put the new crop on sale within the next two weeks and will probably get peak prices...