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Word: lowerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hayfield in lower Indiana, dotted with 29 blue-&-white striped tents, last week went 70,000 steamer clams, 4,250 milk-fed chickens, 900 watermelons, three truckloads of roasting corn, 60 chefs, 250 waiters, 36 bands, 8,200 personally invited Republicans from twelve States and 11,000 uninvited Republicans. Formal purpose of the occasion was to launch the Republican Congressional campaign of 1938. The host, who laid out $30,000 for the party, was buoyant Homer E. Capehart, "the daddy of the electric automatic phonograph," now vice president & sales director of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., after building up his own Capehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Homeric Feast | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...home. Abroad, the Republic has already piled up external debts of some $19,000,000, on which it has recently been unable to make payments. But for Costa Rica's Congress expropriation was a good ax to hold over the company's head in hope of getting lower rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Electric Ax | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...high-school marks, extracurricular activities, etc. Some of their findings were trite: that a student who has a good average in high school, or rates high in intelligence tests, is likely to get good marks in college; that a youth who works for part of his college expenses gets lower than average marks, but a determined 100% self-supporting student ranks above the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Success Test | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds properly starts. To Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Villages | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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