Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blandy, commander of joint Task Force One and director of Operations Crossroads, watched the army super-fortress "Dave's Dream" drop an explosive but non-atomic dummy bomb close to the center of the 75-ship target...
...Miner C. Hill, chairman of the Committee on Mothers' Milk, last week credited his wet nurses with a large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only...
...been planned as a benefit-for U.S. playgoers. When London's Old Vic players came to Broadway for six weeks of repertory, their sponsors, nonprofit Theatre, Inc., expected to drop about...
...seem to be the only solution to a crisis that has been allowed to reach its eleventh hour. The University has contracted for forty of these structures. If the administration plans to use this as a model for other developments, forty are sufficient. But if the University means to drop the job there, it will be a clear demonstration that Harvard is still economizing as usual while colleges with much smaller endowments rally to meet this crisis in education. No less than ten times that number of emergency units, placed on Soldiers Field, along the River, in the Dunster tennis...
...ballpark. Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...