Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LATER flight charges will be lowered by some airlines. Northwest Airlines will drop interest rates on installment-plan flights to 8% from...
...cart will fall apart and the rider will drop into an Ivy model suit. Fetishism such as this is like an old school ring; when it begins to pinch, you leave it at home in your dresser drawer
Just before the opening of the first World War, Percy Wyndham Lewis (who chose to drop his first name) grouped himself with T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce as one of "the men of 1914"--four young writers assembled under the vague banner of neo-classicism. Yet Lewis, despite his skills as a painter, satirical writer and critic, has long since fallen into a relative obscurity beside his illustrious contemporaries...
...Filters. As smokers switched, the phenomenal growth of filters sparked the industry's comeback. While sales of regular cigarettes have continued to drop since 1952, filters have risen from 1% of the market in 1952 to 30% last year, are heading for 40% in 1957. More than a dozen new filter brands have been put on the market in the past five years, and almost every one has moved up fast in the sales race. Reynolds' Winston, fifth-ranked in 1955, last year took over fourth place from Chesterfield. (Regular and king sizes are classified separately.) Liggett & Myers...
...really good fielding plays were made all afternoon, a diving stop Cleary made of a ground single in right, and a good throw Phil Haughey made to cut down a runner in the third. But each of these men contributed some sloppy fielding, as Cleary chased into right to drop a pop fly and Haughey made some poor throws...