Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profits of the Cunard Company were ?394,587 for the past year, after providing for depreciation and taxes. The annual report states that " while the carrying trade generally shows an increase over last year, the carrying rates, especially homeward bound from America have fallen to low levels owing to increasing competition...
Randall Library contains books on Missions, Social Service, and on general religious topics. During the past years the Library had fallen into poor shape with a large number of obsolete and unnecessary books. This year a great deal has been done toward renovating the Library, returning some books to Widener and donating books which were of little value in the Randall Library. The Library now presents a far better appearance and, with the purchase of new books, is up-to-date rather than obsolete. A bibliography of works by and about Phillips Brooks was secured from the Widener and Congressional...
...Bagdad, leaving that city an island in a flooded area of 100 square miles. Both the Zab and the Little Zab rivers between Mosul and Bagdad are pouring their swollen tribute into the waters of the Tigris. It will be impossible to repair the breach until the river has fallen ten feet...
...conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...
...Committee's naive optimism is remarkable. It forgets that the ban placed on Rabelais has probably doubled the readers of "Gargantua," while "Jurgen," since the allurement of censorship was removed, has fallen in value from twenty-five dollars to a mere two-fifty. A half-page ad like this will be commonplace: "Read 'Love and Law." The Clean Books League calls it 'the greatest outrage against decency and morality in the last decade...