Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed in 1936, was glad to join Mr. Dies. They got their resolution passed-but when the committee was picked, angry Sam Dickstein was left...
...friend just up from Key West who's been in everything (including a striped suit) and made money too. Has construction company he is just starting with some idea of costs lower to him by 15 percent (Some pretty good idea we trust--whatever the whole thing means...
Interior plans call for three levels, two for squash courts and the top for a basketball floor and exercise room. The lower levels will be divided by corridors running through the center of the building, with doorways to the courts. Lockers and shower baths are on the first and second levels...
Life at Eton is full of strange and inhuman punishments for Lower Boys. They tremble at a summons from "The Library," dread the tutor's ticket which carries penalties ranging from a sharp look, or writing 100 lines of Latin, to a sound tanning. But Eton's humbling birch rods, fagging and games are no match for the educational effect of Eton's snobbish traditions. Today it is still true of its products that "Etonians as a class are not popular with non-Etonians...
...test th pilots' skill in handling his plane; in the 360 degree spot landing the pilot will have to make a complete circle from a low altitude and try to make his plane land as near to a line as possible. The 280 degree event will be from a lower altitude and be only a semicircle. Then comes the bullseye landing, where the pilot has to guide his plane to a landing on a spot...