Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prices go up at 5 p.m. today for students wishing to change, drop, or add any course...
...alternative? Said Radford: small, fast bombers which, escorted by fighters, could hit military targets with accuracy. It sounded remarkably like the formula for World War II carrier warfare. Certainly the Navy did not now have a bomber with the range, speed and armor of the B-36, which could drop the atomic bomb...
...argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted the new trial to be held in Vermont, where he had spent the summer, and where "the press coverage of the first trial was very limited...
...Harry Truman in the White House; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis. As a St. Louis party whip, Hannegan backed Senator Truman's renomination in the 1940 Missouri primary; as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (1944-47). he led the fourth-term fight, persuaded F.D.R. to drop Henry Wallace as running mate and pressured the convention into picking Truman. Rewarded with the postmaster-generalship (1945), Hannegan i resigned his political jobs a year later to head a syndicate which bought the St. Louis Cardinals. He sold his interest last January for a reported...
This term's enrollment of almost 1300 is an all-time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable...