Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European economists had guessed-not knowing of the super-secret parleys-that once the franc sank the British would sink their pound even lower to retain .its competitive advantage in world trade. It was perfectly believable that the State Bank comrades had dumped their sterling simply because they had wrongly but honestly guessed that it was too hot for them to hold...
Thus a major U. S. playground was belatedly recognized as a major province of the Church. Southern California is historically dear to Rome. In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested...
This figure is notably lower than that for the Business School which has had for several years a properly equipped and manned branch of the Hygiene Department located in the School itself, Last year this office was patronized by 87 per cent of the men enrolled on the Boston side of the river, a figure felt by Dr. Bock to demonstrate the necessity of a better physical setup among the Law students...
...lower court McMahon related that in 1935 "a member of a political body in England'' introduced him to agents of a foreign government who offered him employment as a spy and later took him to "a certain baron" whose name the prisoner wrote on a piece of paper and passed to the judge. This baron was a member of the Embassy staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified...
Sneered Flyer Merrill: "I admit that the situation . . . was such as to scare an inexperienced flyer. . . . Safety required lower altitude, at which I immediately aimed. To my consternation Richman emptied a tank against my protest and wanted to send...