Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plotting. Playwright Kazan, onetime play reader for the Theatre Guild and wife of Director Elia Kazan, must eventually abandon action for argument. This means a drop in dramatic force. Thus, when the student unequivocally assures his worried benefactor that he is not a Communist, he seems morally much more horrifying than when, later on, he gives all the reasons why he is one. In the last act The Egghead becomes a lively enough symposium, but in any creative sense it really ceases to be a play...
From his own library he resurrected his college texts, Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals and Mathematical Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, KOL came across with an Encyclopaedia Britannica and a world atlas. Occasionally an adult volunteer would drop in to help with the answers. By last week Bob was getting more than 200 phone calls a night, and KOL was planning to hire an assistant and provide extra telephone lines...
PROGESTERONE (the natural form) and the synthetic progestagens are female hormones. Given to men, they can both increase fertility and serve as temporary desexing agents, said Dr. Carl G. Heller after studies at Oregon State Penitentiary. In men with a low sperm count, the drugs drop the count to zero, but when the drugs are stopped, there is a rebound to more normal levels, increasing the likelihood of conception. In normal-count men, the drugs also reduce sexual desire, suggesting that they might be used along with psychotherapy in treating homosexuals...
...crash program to catch Soviet Russia's earth satellite had a depressing effect. Investors were increasingly worried about high interest rates that led economists to forecast a slight fourth-quarter decline in the rate (currently $37 billion annually) of expenditures for new plant and equipment, the first drop since the first quarter of 1955. The growing surplus of oil (see below) and the possibility of lower steel production and prices as Lukens Steel dropped the price of plate $8 a ton also had an unsettling effect...
Would the market drop lower still...