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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slowly and demanded their money's worth, but they were not afraid of expensive items so long as their money was going for quality and serviceability; in television sets, they largely ignored both the low-priced portables and super-priced sets with Chinese lacquer. Most stores expected a drop in dollar volume, but still anticipated a big and profitable Christmas rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Habit | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Benjamin W. Fink, chief engineer of the Parks Division of the Metropolitan District Commission and supervisor of the project, reported that "near Boston, the day-to-night temperature drop is sufficient to change poor skiing to good skiing and with the shortness of the season in mind we thought the investment highly worth making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blue Hills Ski Center Will Open After Holiday | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Brahms, Bernstein really let himself go. Teetering on the edge of his platform, he milked every drop of romanticism from the music, but without the syrup which enthusiastic conductors too frequently incur. Lenny danced and Brahms was terrific...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

Eighteen Heroes. Next day a sharp-eyed sergeant in a B-17 spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rescue at Sea | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...play, "The Rat Race," Garson Kanin has made use of some of the ingredients that have made his "Born Yesterday" the huge success it continues to be. And his central character shares many of the same cultural attitudes of Miss Billie ("Drop dead") Dawn. Unfortunately, however, this new play lacks the swift elip of humor of "Born Yesterday," and the story it tells is as sentimental and implausible as that of "Anna Lucasta...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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