Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rosemary girls are divided into a lower school with 126 pupils, an upper school with 102. They work so hard at Latin under Miss Ruutz-Rees and English under Miss Lowndes that when they get to Smith or Vassar it is often with a sigh of relief. "Ten bar girls," who have served ten terms in the student government, are Duces, and the girl voted outstanding in each graduating class is an Optima. Both Optimae and Duces have their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer...
...airplane quotations represent, in most cases, a 10 per cent reduction from twice the one-way fare. There is no reduction on round trip railway fares east of Chicago. The Pullman prices given are twice the one-way price for lower berths. There is no reduction for round trip. Upper berths are 80 per cent of the price of lowers...
Students travelling in groups by plane have, under certain conditions, access to a 15 per cent reduction on round trips. Call Boston offices for information. The round trip rates are as follows: Destination Plane Railr'd Lower Berth New York $ 25.00 $ 18.80 $ 5.00 Buffalo 50.78 29.70 5.00 Cincinnati 93.50 56.10 12.00 Chicago 96.90 61.10 13.50 St. Louis 114.10 72.60 16.00 Minneapolis 126.90 93.70 17.00 San Francisco 304.55 145.15 44.50 Denver 209.19 102.55 28.00 Seattle...
Destination Plane Railr'd Lower BerthNew Orleans 157.90 69.85 19.50Washington 46.90 29.20 7.50Miami...
...from the Kris Kringle type is Manhattan's No. 1 Christmas tree dealer, 45-year-old Fred Vahlsing. One of the biggest vegetable shippers in the U. S., owner of rich farms in Texas' lower Rio Grande Valley, sharp-eyed Dealer Vahlsing makes money on Bonita carrots, advertised by radio's homiest housewife, Martha Deane. Says he: "Martha Deane, she's my carrot. . . ." From his bleak warehouse office on Manhattan's Warren Street, Dealer Vahlsing sends a man up to Nova Scotia early in July to make contracts with landowners and woodcutters. In October Vahlsing...