Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation to his advantage, no one last week could say for sure. However, Mr. Quezon, being virtu ally a political dictator and having got from his rubberstamp, unicameral Legislature more power than Franklin Roosevelt has yet dreamed of, recently accepted from his legislative branch full power to raise and lower tariffs. The U. S. might now veto his use of it. If, however, he can get independence or some form of autonomy before 1940, he can with the greatest of ease lower tariffs on Japanese goods. Rather than permit this, the U. S. would probably find it highly advisable...
...other headaches, such as the time Pilate (Secretary Ralph R. Pihl of Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection scene; the equally painful moment when the seven-foot cloth used to lower Christ from the Cross was missing when it was time for the Descent. Last week's premiere, however, went off well enough, struck an audience of 1,600 as no less professional than the average U. S. show of its kind...
This change, Morison stated, is motivated by the facts that the new style, as worn in most universities, is more becoming, cooler, and no longer draws the objection once raised to it. Not only is the neck cut lower, in the newly revived type, but the gown itself is nearly a foot shorter...
...used. All the top-notch runners, you will notice, are perfectly relaxed through the shoulders when running. Good form is essential to the runner. And there are times in the continued use of a limb when certain muscles in that limb should be relaxed: the muscles of the lower leg for instance need be contracted only half the time. Fellows that don't relax muscles not in use tie up easily...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...