Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aroused, the Department of Agriculture advised farmers to breed more mares this year. In 1910, there were 23,015,902 horses in the country. In 1920, there were 21,472,772 horses-a drop of more than a million and a half in ten years. It was also estimated that, in the last five years to date, the number of horses had decreased another two millions. It is believed that there are only about 17,589,000 horses on farms, making an allowance for the usual number of horses, 1,800,000, in cities. When the present work stock ages...
Said Mrs. Donahey: "We may drop in at the prison Sunday...
...natural death. It was freely predicted that Britain would ask for more time to consider the protocol proposals, owing to the fact that her Dominions had declined to attend an Imperial Conference on the subject. This, in turn, was regarded as unfavorable and a project was in hand to drop the security proposals out of the drafted protocol and refer the whole question to this year's Assembly. There was probably no truth in the report that Britain would offer France a separate security pact...
With a drip, drap, drop...
...West Point was lucky. The whole army may well drop to its knees and offer sacrifice and thanksgiving to Mars that the person who discovered the mistake was a friend. Imagine the result if an Annapolis man had seen it first. The age-old rivalry between army and navy would have ended then and there with the middles on top, chanting a newly-found epithet, perfectly precise and utterly unanswerable...