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Silas then locked a befuddled Stefan in the safe meant for himself and dropped it into the river.
The charge against Palmer was dropped, and Rice was indicted on a higher charge of aggravated assault.
Lisa-Marie's previous guardian dropped her off at a Bakersfield shelter with serious injuries to her head and mouth.
In his backpack, which police say he dropped before fleeing, they recovered three hammers in plastic wrapping.
The stock dropped 15 percent in after-hours trading Tuesday and the carnage continued Wednesday morning.
It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
The rear ramp dropped open, and Lance Cpl. Williams saw a blackened hull spouting flames 30 feet high.
When he dropped me off at my apartment house, I managed to escape with a kiss.
And the blather will only get louder now that Rick Santorum has dropped out.
If we had these rules, everybody would have known what was going on at JPMorgan Chase long before the anvil dropped on their head.
But Pawlenty then ran out of money after not meeting expectations in the Ames straw poll, so he dropped out of the race.
Members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks frequently dropped in.
Marky Mark dropped some F-bombs, Zac Efron showed off his abs, and more highlights from the MTV movie awards.
Minaj dropped her newest single anaconda on Monday, a Sir Mix-A-Lot sampling ode to her own assets.
The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
Maisie's faith in Mrs. Wix for instance had suffered no lapse from the fact that all communication with her had temporarily dropped.
Three hours after Hussein Kamel left, he called my office and dropped a bomb on me.
When the two men got together to discuss contract arrangements, the challenger dropped a bombshell.
She voiced her regrets when he dropped dimes on goldfish and refused to accept the excuse that he was trying to set them free.
After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television.
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I was finding college too hard, so I dropped science and switched to an easier course.
The duledge pegs worked loose and dropped behind. Wheels began to break up.
To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a dummy from the rooftop.
In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.
Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones.
In delivering it forehanded, the ball is dropped in front of the left foot, and is struck when about a foot or even less from the ground.
Though natural gas prices dropped, the folks doing solar didn't get with the program.
He went to the University of Kansas for almost two years before he dropped out.
Worker mobility, which greases the wheels of hiring, dropped off sharply last year.
Exerting all his remaining strength he rushed down the bank, dropped his rifle, and plunged headforemost into the stream.
One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.
I've guided heli-ski trips where we've been dropped on top of beautiful, untouched, 30-degree slopes.
By the 19th century in Europe, this had dropped to between 35 and 65 percent.
On the way to work, I dropped my letters in the corner mailbox.
I dropped the book but managed to catch it before it hit the ground.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
She has dropped it by autotomy, like the tail or claw of a fleeing lizard, lobster, or starfish.
The trees around the little kids' playground dropped the blossomiest blossom I had ever seen.
The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it!
The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.
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They had also dropped their championship of Jones, who had given up hope of getting his farm back and gone to live in another part of the county.
A minute or two later, a female cirl bunting dropped down into the field in front of us, soon followed by a male.
Clam jumped up, and crossing her hands on her breast dropped a brisk little courtsey to her benefactor.
He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
Still, the dogged obstinacy of his race held him to the pace he had set, and would hold him till he dropped in his tracks.
At the junction with the main corridor was a single downlighter which dropped a cone of light onto the apex.
The Manhattan Project resulted in the two nuclear weapons dropped over Japan.
Most of the scientific staff were dropped off at Fremantle, and returned to Britain on RAF Transport Command aircraft.
Eitan marched his men towards Jebel Heitan, where they dug in while receiving supplies of weapons dropped by French aircraft.
They are introduced and read a first time, and then are dropped from the Order Paper.
The Lords subsequently accepted the Budget when the land tax proposal was dropped.
Speaker William Hay ordered the change and the capital D was dropped from Hansard references.
The pilot flew to Chile, landed south of Punta Arenas, and dropped off the SAS team.
By 1960 the UK had dropped from being the world's second largest motor vehicle producer into third place.
By 1974 the UK's position as a world motor vehicle manufacturer had dropped to sixth place.
Previously, an intermediate FIA GT2 European Championship existed, but the FIA dropped it to cut costs.
Shortly afterwards the firm dropped the offshore due to lack of information.
All charges against him in Nigeria had been dropped in Nigeria following an election.
Using an early theory of inertia, Galileo could explain why rocks dropped from a tower fall straight down even if the earth rotates.
Also, again ignoring air resistance, any and all objects, when dropped from the same height, will hit the ground at the same time.
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The slogan was dropped in 2001 after Lufthansa overtook BA in terms of passenger numbers.
They could be equal as long as they dropped their culture which was deficient compared to white culture.
In contrast, biology textbooks did not undergo such a reversal but many instead dropped their discussion of race altogether.
Certain verbs are often used progressively and verbs of motion may be dropped before an adverb or adverbial phrase of motion.
Greene, they speculated, seemed to have dropped the category of entertainment.
The multistage rocket dropped off its first stage successfully rather than carrying the extra weight higher.
The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
Recordings were made for a planned live album, but the idea was dropped after Halliwell's later departure.
The superiority of the electronic system saw the mechanical system dropped early the following year.
Over time, Albion specifically came to be known as Britannia, and the name for the group was subsequently dropped.
Peg continued in pictorial art beyond the 18th century, but the other figures associated with the original tableau dropped away.
Initially 17 subjects were enrolled in the study, but 5 subjects dropped out due to discomfort related to the nasoduodenal tube.
The report also showed that the number of illegal border crossings has dropped.
Immigration from Latin American countries has dropped significantly with most immigrants now coming from Asia.
As the ground level dropped, the dikes by necessity grew and merged into an integrated system.
Subsequently the term Imperial Latin was dropped by historians of Latin literature, although it may be seen in marginal works.
During prolonged dry periods the foliage is dropped to conserve water and prevent death from drought.
This was dropped by their successors, the Scottish House of Stuart, who replaced the Tudors' dragon supporter with the Scottish unicorn.
In 2002, HBOS dropped the Bank of Wales brand and absorbed the operations into Bank of Scotland Business Banking.
The British tabloid, Daily Mirror, subsequently printed a retraction of its story about her being dropped by the label.
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The case was dropped before the end of the month due to a lack of evidence.
Aberdeen dropped out of competitive football, along with Dundee and Raith Rovers.
The decoy worked on around four occasions, where several raids resulted in bombs being dropped on the decoy site.
Attendance at Sunday mass dropped during the 1970s and the 1980s, but other religious practices such as pilgrimages have experienced a revival.
The spring, Oswald's Well, is supposed to have originated where the bird dropped the arm from the tree.
The number of active mills dropped from 250 in 1926 to 81 in 1947 and 24 in 1974, increasingly concentrated in industrial centres.
The 1865 edition of the book included the transfer of preferences from dropped candidates and the STV method was essentially complete.
Chicago ended 2013 with 415 murders, the lowest number of murders since 1965, and overall crime rates dropped by 16 percent.
Initially, sea levels were high, but as Gondwana moved south, ice accumulated into glaciers and sea levels dropped.
During this icy stage, sea level seems to have risen and dropped somewhat, but despite much study the details remain unresolved.
Holding money became profitable as prices dropped lower and a given amount of money bought ever more goods, exacerbating the drop in demand.
Lhuyd attended grammar school in Oswestry and went up to Jesus College, Oxford in 1682, but dropped out before his graduation.
The nuplexes, virtually independent of fuel supplies, could be dropped into jungle or tundra.
He had initially been refused a place at the Slade and was only admitted when someone dropped out.
In 1959, government use of this flag was dropped in favour of the current flag at the urging of the Gorsedd of Bards.
Calzaghe dropped him in the third round with a ferocious left uppercut, although McIntyre managed to survive the count.
But the end was near, Calzaghe dropped McIntyre again at the start of the fourth and this time the referee stopped proceedings.
On 15 May 1896 the Monmouthshire Daily Leader part was dropped and latterly the definite article has also been dropped.
However, he was only given small parts in the Academy's productions, and feeling isolated and directionless, almost dropped out several times.
Areas where more particles are dropped are called alluvial or flood plains, and the dropped particles are called alluvium.
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The accident rate dropped sharply after the change, but soon rose back to near its original level.
Portugal's infant mortality rate has dropped sharply since the late 1970s, when 24 of 1000 newborns died in the first year of life.
The churches' earnings from their land also dropped so much that the Hanseatic traders dominated the city's foreign trade in the 15th century.
Windows cracked in the cathedral of Notre Dame at Pontoise, and blocks of stone dropped ominously from the vaulting.
With the cold water concentrated around Antarctica, sea surface temperatures and, consequently, continental temperatures would have dropped.
After independence, Dutch was dropped as an official language and replaced by Malay.
Buoys were dropped temporarily marking the end point of a mining excursion to avoid leaving an unmined gap when the next excursion started.
The first half of 2007 was relatively strong, but in the second half rates dropped significantly.
This resulted in a glut of ships when demand dropped due to a weakened global economy and dramatically reduced demand in the United States.
During the ice ages, when the sea level dropped, most of the English Channel was dry land.
This plan was dropped in 2003 following protests by cultural and environmental groups.
Convinced that the Jacobites were of little material help, Choiseul dropped them from the plan.
However, the balance of bomb tonnage being dropped shifted greatly in favour of the RAF as Bomber Command gained in strength.
During the night, 72 bombers attacked German marshalling yards forests and dropped mines in the Rhine river for a loss of two aircraft.
During the night, 72 bombers attacked German marshalling yards, forests and dropped mines in the Rhine, for a loss of two aircraft.
Once in the water, they were strafed by German bombers, which also dropped flares on patches of oil and burned alive some of the shipwrecked men.
Had an invasion taken place, the Bf 110 equipped Erprobungsgruppe 210 would have dropped Seilbomben just prior to the landings.
On several occasions British aircraft dropped propaganda newspapers and leaflets on the islands.
Over 2016, day visitors to Brighton and Hove dropped by an average of 2,400 per day.
Furthermore, the age of first marriage dropped during the 19th century thus increasing a woman's child bearing years.
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Brown bears will eat the fruit dropped from trees by the Asian black bear, as they themselves are too large and cumbersome to climb.
By 1960, the number of rat infestations in Alberta had dropped to below 200 per year.
A college had been mooted in 1816, but the intended tutor died suddenly, and the matter was for the time dropped.
The 1998 expedition was dropped by parachute and completed the track to the North Pole.
Income per person in the South dropped to less than 40 percent of that of the North, a condition that lasted until well into the 20th century.
Blake put to sea with 12 ships in February 1650 and dropped anchor off Lisbon in an attempt to persuade the Portuguese king to expel Rupert.
Under the new deal Flybe will operate 2 daily flights with the afternoon service being dropped.
However, even this did not last, and only a few years later these regional idents were dropped.
I got five double sawbucks out of my wallet and dropped them in front of him.
On his deathbed Eutychius recanted impalpability and Gregory dropped the matter.
In the 3rd and 4th centuries the population of Frisia steadily decreased, and by the 5th century it dropped dramatically.
Under his grandson, Arnulf, the terminology was largely dropped and the kingdom, when it was referred to by name, was simply Francia.
This terminology therefore dropped out of use after the Goths were displaced by the Hunnic invasions.
After the Gothic siege of 537, population dropped to 30,000, but had risen to 90,000 by the papacy of Gregory the Great.
Distinct titulature for Germany, Italy and Burgundy, which traditionally had their own courts, laws, and chanceries, gradually dropped from use.
This would explain why the latter terms dropped out of use shortly after 400, when the Goths were displaced by the Hunnic invasions.
Whatever population may have remained dropped dramatically, and the coastal lands remained largely unpopulated for the next two centuries.
They then next dropped anchor at Homonhon, another small island in the province of Eastern Samar.
Piracy dropped to negligible levels only upon the end of the policy in 1567, but a modified form was subsequently adopted by the Qing.
By the end of the year Sancho VII had dropped out of the war under Papal pressure.
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According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1959, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.
Infant mortality was at 77 per 1,000 live births in 2005, but in 2013 this figure had dropped to 47 within the first 12 months after birth.
The London branch of the Medici bank had already been dropped as a full partnership in 1465, and had been reincorporated as an accomando.
Plague fleas, infected clothing, and infected supplies encased in bombs were dropped on various targets.
Passengers were not happy to be dropped there with no services to accommodate them, and it was soon clear that a town must be built.
The e is dropped for other derivations, for example, central, fibrous, spectral.
After disputes which lasted into the next Parliament, this second measure was dropped, but the right to hear equity appeals was confirmed.
Similarly, in Australian usage, the to in I'll write to you is retained, as opposed to US usage where it may be dropped.
The English language eventually dropped the rule for nouns, while the German language kept it.
He fooled Penny with a pump fake and dropped in a 3-pointer, sending the game into overtime.
Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.
I accidentally dropped the bottle of ammonia and after few seconds, a very pungent stench could be detected.
Virginia became a royal colony again in 1660, and the word was dropped from the full title.
Volunteer numbers dropped, not meeting the demands for more troops for Gallipoli, and much more strongly, for the Western Front.
As the casualties of the Iraq War mounted, Blair was accused of misleading Parliament, and his popularity dropped dramatically.
When Blair resigned as Prime Minister, Robert Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write The Ghost.
This rule was quietly dropped, and cheaper coal became the normal fuel, as railways gained acceptance among the public.
The engine was laid aside, and the scheme for raising water was dropped as impracticable.
In spite of this, in the wake of McCulloch's scathing review, the reputation of Malthus as economist dropped away, for the rest of his life.
They used a horse driven screw press mechanism or a dropped weight to compress the hay.
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During the period between 1885 and 1908, as many as eight million Congolese died of exploitation and disease while the birth rate dropped.
The Americans refused to consider a buffer state and the proposal was dropped.
In the years from 1994 to 1999, crime dropped 50 percent, the highest rate of decrease for any city in America with over 100,000 residents.
The Francis Gate had been left in place after being dropped in 1936, so it prevented flooding in 1938 as well.
By 1979 cement shipments had dropped off such that the railroad was no longer economically viable, and US Steel abandoned the line.
Nowadays, explosives dropped from aircraft are used to break the ice dams before they become dangerous.
On 31 January 2008 The Standard, Cheshire and district's newspaper, announced that the legal action had been dropped.
Then the boy went out onto the moor to look for something else to play with, and he dropped the flint as he went along.
By 1965 she had dropped the pseudonym and was signing her own name to all of her novels.
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings.
Molds of these pages were dropped down chutes to the basement pressroom and used to cast semicylindrical printing plates.
After being towed into a massive slab, Dorian dropped down the face and caught a rail, putting him in a near-impossible situation.
He passed his arm round a rope to steady himself, made a speaking-trumpet of his hands, and suddenly dropped them again without uttering a sound.
The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock.
Both Fred Savage and Lou Hart, each ordinarily a surehanded player, dropped the ball twice.
I dropped in on the surgery as I was passing to show the doctor my hemorrhoids.
I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned.
Tito tached up and dropped into low, leaving a fragrant set of tracks a block long and a screech that could be heard halfway to Boulder Dam.
Ernst slipped and dropped his torch on the flagstones, shattering the bulb and plunging us into darkness.
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The 3d PRS identified targets, notably in Japan, including the unfortunate cities on which the A-bombs were dropped.
This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth.
Want ads in the Oregonian, one of the key indicators used to compute the index, dropped dramatically during the recession, Duy says.
Last night the person above me flushed his toilet and my water bed dropped two inches.
Water bombers of the Emergencies Ministry's Siberian regional centre dropped 120 tonnes of water on burning forests over the past day.
He hooked a snake accidentally, and was so scared he dropped his rod into the water.
The ineptness of the novice jugglers was apparent as they frequently dropped their juggling pins.
During the examinations, she answered truthfully and boldly and all charges were dropped.
Interframes are recognized by having metal frames with inlays dropped into machined out areas of the handles.
The wind dropped on Tuesday evening, and the firebreaks created by the garrison finally began to take effect on Wednesday 5 September.
Cranes are located at intervals along the canal's length to allow boards to be dropped into slots in the banks.
London University, nevertheless, was established in 1837, and by the 1850s Oxford dropped its restrictions.
The Reform and the others dropped all the things a woman has to do like the kashruth and the mikvah.
Italy subsequently dropped its objections to Germany's goal of absorbing Austria.
In early August, the USAAF dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If my life were a Saturday-morning cartoon, you would have heard a loud kerplunk as my stomach dropped. My poor starving stomach.
On 20 May, French troops opened fire on demonstrators in Damascus with artillery and dropped bombs from the air.
On 17 January around 100 bombers dropped a high concentration of incendiaries, some 32,000 in all.
The shift from precision bombing to area attack is indicated in the tactical methods and weapons dropped.
Nine days later, two waves of 125 and 170 bombers dropped heavy bombs, including 160 tons of high explosive and 32,000 incendiaries.
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In Sunderland on 25 April, Luftflotte 2 sent 60 bombers which dropped 80 tons of high explosive and 9,000 incendiaries.
The Bristol Aeroplane Company proposed to combine jet and piston engines but dropped the idea and concentrated on propellor turbines instead.
In 1978, activist Yana Mintoff and another dissident threw bags of horse manure, and in June 1996 demonstrators dropped leaflets.
In his second year he dropped philosophy, and was awarded an upper second class Bachelor of Arts degree.
Sea levels had dropped coincident with the ice age, but slowly recovered over the course of the Silurian and Devonian.
As plants took hold on the continental margins, oxygen levels increased and carbon dioxide dropped, although much less dramatically.
It has now been dropped from all the latest Jaguar models, although some customers add it to their car as a customization.
Another source asserted that the bombs were mistakenly dropped into the harbour rather than the dockyard.
It was then dropped with much solemnity into the letter-box, so as to be ready for the letter-corporal at early post time.
Attendance and donations dropped sharply when they discovered the extent of his heterodoxy.
Chadwick dropped all his other responsibilities to concentrate on proving the existence of the neutron, frequently working late at night.
Watt's rivals soon overtook him in developing the process, and he dropped out of the race.
Since the advent of HIV testing of donor blood in the 1980s, the transmission of HIV during transfusion has dropped dramatically.
These runners, or drills, opened the furrow to a uniform depth before the seed was dropped.
Those deemed unworthy did not receive new tickets and dropped out of the society without disturbance.
For students, restrictions on entry should be dropped, and more opportunity given to poorer families.
She was examined twice but the charges against her were eventually dropped.
The victory was his first since being dropped by the Williams team, which won no races that season.
Director Steven Spielberg was approached to direct the first film, but dropped out.
The old man wandered away from his retirement home, dropped dead on the beach and was picked up by the meat wagon and sent to the morgue.
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This ritual was dropped from the coronation of Queen Victoria and was never revived.
Jones inquired about the vacant position at the suggestion of his wife after Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer.
The song was reportedly almost dropped from the album because of objections from Richards.
Donald Wolfit, who loathed him and was himself disliked by his colleagues, was dropped, as was Adele Dixon.
In 2008, Framestore dropped the CFC from its name, becoming simply Framestore.
In return, the prosecution dropped charges of conspiracy to cause criminal damage.
The sport's debut season, 1950, saw eighteen teams compete, but due to high costs many dropped out quickly.
In 1997, a major revision dropped whole paragraphs and clarified many sections to simplify and strengthen the principles.
Following the tour, head coach Andy Flower resigned his post whilst batsman Kevin Pietersen was dropped indefinitely from the England team.
In the evening session, England managed to take three wickets, but also dropped a catch and missed a stumping.
Geraint Jones dropped a catch off Michael Clarke's bat, but it did not prove to be crucial, as Clarke was lbw to Hoggard in the next over.
The number of teams participating in the World Cup dropped down to fourteen.
Some sports that were featured in earlier Games were later dropped from the programme.
In 2008, their rankings slipped so that during the 2009 Six Nations Championship they dropped to their lowest ranking of 8th.
These colours however were dropped in favour of a more traditional to today, red and white design.
The first game at Headingley was played on 20 September 1890, when Manningham were beaten by one try and one dropped goal to nil.
Strange dropped a shot on the 17th to leave the two rivals tied for the lead on the 18th tee.
Peterson was dropped to the canvas twice, although the first time was counted as a slip instead of a legitimate knockdown.
Khan regrouped and was temporarily able to go back at Garcia, but with less than a minute left in the round Khan was dropped a third time.
However Haye dropped out of the fight on 17 November 2013 after shoulder surgery.
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Hill became champion in 1996 with eight wins, but was dropped by Williams for the following season.
On the first lap Hamilton was passed by several cars and dropped to eighth place.
However, successive crashes at the Italian and Singapore Grands Prix dropped him to 3rd in the championship.
Vettel had brake binding problems for a short period, around lap 20, and he too dropped back a place but was then back on the pace.
Towards the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix Verstappen dropped to 14th after changing back to wet tyres.
In return the WDC dropped its claim to being the sport's governing body and renamed itself the Professional Darts Corporation.
The WDC dropped its claim to be a world governing body and renamed itself the Professional Darts Corporation.
At the tournament, he dropped only three legs in his first three matches before getting lucky in the last 16 against Brendan Dolan.
At the 1985 World Championship, Davis dropped only 23 frames en route to the final, where his opponent was Dennis Taylor.
Labour dropped from 30 to 29 seats, and Plaid Cymru moved from 11 to 12 seats.
The Conservatives lost 3 seats, moving from 14 seats to 11, while the Liberal Democrats dropped from 5 seats to just one.
Since then, the inner city numbers have dropped dramatically as people have moved to swell the Greater Belfast suburb population.
At the same time, Daragh Maher, head of HSBC, suggested that if Sterling dropped in value so would the Euro.
Immediately after a poll in June 2016 showed that the Leave campaign was 10 points ahead, the pound dropped by a further one per cent.
They set aside their plaids and other encumbrances before the battle, and dropped to the ground to avoid enemy volleys.
Some balls appear to have been dropped without being fired, some missed their targets, and others are distorted from hitting human bodies.
The caveat that the woman had to remain unemployed was dropped by 1937 due to a shortage of skilled labourers.
By January 1939, unemployment was down to 301,800, and it dropped to only 77,500 by September.
Enrolment in denominational schools dropped sharply, and by 1939 all such schools were disbanded or converted to public facilities.
That morning, bombs were dropped on Harrow and Wealdstone, on the outskirts of London.
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On 1 May, a Gurkha parachute battalion was dropped on Elephant Point, and cleared Japanese rearguards from the mouth of the Yangon River.
Pierzynski took two steps across home plate toward the hometeam dugout, then dropped his bat and ran toward first base while the Angels stood by and watched.
For that nappy full of homosexless verse he dropped last year.
Walpole had already dropped out with engine trouble and as the other five emerged from the murk, they were immediately engaged by the German ships.
Manuscript production in England dropped off precipitously around the 860s when the Viking invasions began in earnest, not to be revived until the end of the century.
Only five were sunk while evacuating Dunkirk, despite large periods of German air superiority, thousands of sorties flown, and hundreds of tons of bombs dropped.
However, if the swelling dropped and became black in appearance since it had taken in coldness, the physician had to be cautious when drawing the cold from the swelling.
At one point the suspect dropped his agal and the Indian man picked it up from the ground and gave it back to the suspect, who resumed the beatings and punches.
For example, the spur to Heathrow airport was dropped from the whole scheme in 2015, as was the HS1 to HS2 link, while the Crewe Hub has been added to the scheme.
Although the price of tea had dropped because of the Act, it also validated the Townshend Acts, setting the precedent for the king to impose additional taxes in the future.
When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.
However, the short runway at Port Stanley Airport and the time it would take to improve it made the scheme unviable, so the idea of the Falklands service was dropped.
In total Portland saw 48 air attacks, in which 532 bombs were dropped.
And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
There are no articles, and subject pronouns are often dropped.
That service stopped when Mesa Airline was dropped by United Airlines as the United Express operator, and its replacement, Skywest, did not want to serve the Palmdale market.
Donald no sooner beheld his kinswoman than he dropped on his knee and with the wildest demonstrations of joy kissed the hand of the ragged kerne who supported her.
During the 1970s, WHO had dropped its commitment to a global malaria eradication campaign as too ambitious, it retained a strong commitment to malaria control.
Instead of satiation Hitler menaced Poland, and at last Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dropped appeasement and stood firm in promising to defend Poland.
In the 2001 General Election, the Labour Party won a second successive victory, though voter turnout dropped to the lowest level for more than 80 years.
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Four days later 230 tons was dropped including 60,000 incendiaries.
Nobody used to care when players such as John Ferguson, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe and Maurice Richard dropped the gloves, because they could play the game, too.
Those calculations had implied that, even if it started at red heat, the Earth would have dropped to its present temperature in a few tens of millions of years.
On the advice of his lawyers, Wilde dropped the prosecution.
So why have users stuck with the site when so many other search engines have dropped off the radar? Well, they're not logging on just for the search engine.
In 2013, the number of rat infestations in Alberta dropped to zero again.
Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better.
The new leadership progressively dropped unpopular policies.
Winehouse first appealed the fines, but later dropped the appeal.
After the Parliament reassembled in 1677, the cases involving members of the House of Commons were quietly dropped and neither House revisited the dispute.
The numbers of house sparrows in the Netherlands have dropped in half since the 1980s, so the house sparrow is even considered an endangered species.
In September 2015, England dropped to 10th in the FIFA rankings making Wales in ninth the highest ranked British team for the first time in history.
Similarly, it codifies the mailbox rule that communication of acceptance is effective when dropped in the mail, which is a feature unique to the common law.
In fact, 24 percent of the oil consumed in 2004 went to the United States alone, though by 2007 this had dropped to 21 percent of world oil consumed.
Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day.
The project was dropped after it was discovered that eyewall replacement cycles occur naturally in strong hurricanes, casting doubt on the result of the earlier attempts.
They were dropped off in early September when winter had already arrived.
In August 2012, the coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg dropped plans to reform the House of Lords by making it mostly elected and slashing its size.
Or if it thundered and lightninged, Aunt Frances always dropped everything she might be doing and held Elizabeth Ann tightly in her arms until it was all over.
However, the idea of political union was unpopular, and when James dropped his policy of a speedy union, the topic quietly disappeared from the legislative agenda.

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