Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's findings...
...York City had but one Presbyterian church, the First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
...first point was that angina pectoris does not always indicate actual heart disease. A diaphragm pushed up by a distended stomach may cause the pain. A poorly functioning gall bladder or colon may cause it. So may disturbed ovaries. One of the subtlest causes is focal infection, which may lower the resistance of the heart or sensitize it to pain...
...until last week, however, did any corporation take advantage of the new form. Then Swift & Co. registered $43,000,000 of bonds to refund outstanding securities at lower interest rates. The new Swift bonds will carry a 3¼% coupon, probably the lowest rate for an industrial bond issue since before the War when General Electric sold an issue of 3½s. When Swift officials reported that the 50-page registration was no more troublesome than an oldtime prospectus, Chairman Kennedy, happy as only a Boston Irishman can be, exulted: "This issue is very good evidence that at least...
...mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert Hormell). The plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing his staggering...