Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Connoisseurs of typhoons, the Filipinos thought little of it when one of these lethal storms whipped straight across the lower portion of Luzon fortnight ago. Only ten or 15 people were killed and a few hundred houses razed. But like a man who rejoices at escaping the jaws of a crocodile only to be crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva...
...Philadelphia Record hereby resigns from your association.* We are resigning because your association, founded to benefit and strengthen the daily newspapers of this country, has in the last few years so conducted itself as to lower American newspapers in popular esteem, to endanger the freedom of the press, and has even gone so far as to urge its members to breach the law. . . Your board recommended to its membership that 'no agreement be entered into with any group of employes.' As we understand the Wagner Act, it is obligatory upon employers to negotiate with representatives of a majority...
...early Glacial Age. He also appeared to be a cannibal especially fond of eating from the head, since the heads discovered seemed to have been severed from their trunks. No traces of tools or fire were discovered. The third and fourth skulls found this year were buried ten feet lower than the first two, were therefore considered to be more ancient. To Dr. Weidenreich's delight, they were both mature, as indicated by the closing of the cranial sutures. The fifth skull he last week pronounced the oldest human fossil ever found, older even than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish...
...wider appreciation and understanding of the social responsibilities of business." It was up to industry, said Mr. Brown, to help supply what the U. S. wanted- "work, more money, still more leisure, security against unemployment now and against poverty in old age, and more and better goods at lower prices...
...patched with icy surfaces. Suicide to try this. Lesser trails better than Nose Dive but still bad: Mt. Cardigan; Alexandria N. H.; six and one half inches of old snow on practice slopes, '12" on Duke's trail. Main slides fair in spots. Some slopes still skiable, but lower temperatures mean hard crusts...