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Word: lowering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contained 20 milk teeth, four permanent teeth. Dr. Dart placed him at the base of the human evolutionary stem. But Sir Arthur Keith, while admitting certain manlike features, put him on the same branch with gorillas and chimpanzees, though on a separate twig. After several years the lower jaw was detached from the upper, and the crowns of the milk teeth were seen to be almost wholly human in form. Dr. William King Gregory of Columbia, a world authority on the dental development of primates, located the Taungs skull close to the point of human origin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Heads | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...under the bed when they say that the Republicans are reactionary. "The underlying philosophy of the New Deal is to raise prices by curtailment of production and the creation of monopoly under the NRA," he said, "while the Republicans advocate removing restrictions on business and by free competition get lower prices and an increased distribution of income...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR PARTIES AIR VIEWS IN STUDENT UNION GATHERING | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...lower plane is the latest effort to link the White House and the Kremlin. Here Elliott Roosevelt is accused of taking exhorbitant commissions from the Fokker company for the sale of aircraft to Russia. It should interest American voters to learn that while a relative of the President is guilty of treason if he sells airplanes to the Russian government, the owners of the Liberty League, the DuPonts, may be partners in German munitions plants without being one degree less patriotic than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON FENCE | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...that they cost Arrow but $150 apiece, including the conversion gear. So far Arrow has sold some half-dozen planes at $1,500 apiece. As soon as it can meet its production schedule of four planes a day, it expects to cut their price to $1,000 or lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flivver Plane | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...this action, but, provided the Blum government isn't unhorsed in the kaleidoscopic changes of French politics, there is some hope of having stable monetary markets. However enduring the present French government, the transition from a gold-standard country to a nation with a devalued, regulated currency, accompanied by lower tariffs, adjusted wages, and higher prices, will not be easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OF HERRINGS AND CURRENCIES | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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