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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...with a curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAWAII: The Law of the Islands | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising a drop of sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farming De Luxe | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Somewhat concerned over the drop in enrollment due to student deaths, Bowser officials decided to permit students to dine in the dining halls again. This thought was embodied in the subsequent memorandum...

Author: By Wheaton LA Flange and Murgatroyd Laverne, S | Title: DOPE | 9/3/1943 | See Source »

Sadist as well as sleuth, the landlord suavely tortures his tenant for two and a half acts, until finally each gets the drop on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Good. In Syracuse, N.Y., a friend met Frank Allis in a cafe, asked him how he felt, watched him drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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