Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average." In one sentence he points indirectly to the chasm within the ranks of students not only in Harvard College but in every university and college in the country, that is, the widening of the gulf which separates the A and B and high C students from the C, low C, D and E students. If the Reading Period has done nothing else it has pointed to this important trend...
...report said: "The percentages . . . are so low that one no longer wonders why so many individuals turn to crime. It would appear to be about the safest business in which one could engage...
...kept Emil Glatt and his wife from sleeping, frightened his chickens to death, made his cows stingy, annoyed his horses. So last week he went to court in Nebraska, asking $10,000 damages from the Standard Aircraft Corporation and an injunction to prevent planes from flying low over his farm...
...about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more to transform the American system of government from its age-old purpose of protecting life, liberty, and property into...
...opened (the London outdoor curb market keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above ?7 to well above ?9. When the clock in Capel Court, a few blocks away from Throgmorton Street over the low City roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb market had already effected; nonetheless, at the close of business, Courtaulds Shares and, by sympathy, the stocks of other artificial...