Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano in the East Room. The task of upholding patriotism will then fall to the lower elements in the population. There is always the Massachusetts legislature...
...Guam proudly reported to his Navy superiors that after five years of begging his 19,500 subjects to run for office and cajoling them into attending sessions once they were elected, he had at last filled all 16 seats in the upper House, all 27 seats in the lower House of his "advisory" Congress of Guam. Last week, hoping to find something more creditable to U. S. imperialism, newshawks dug up Governor Otto C. Dowling's fat report on U. S. Samoa, the single typewritten copy of which had been lying in the files of the Navy Department...
Unsuccessfully searching for jobs, according to the New Deal's National Youth Administration, are between 5,000,000 and 8,000,000 youths. Director Rainey uses the lower figure, estimates that 4.700,000 of these youngsters are "unemployed, not in school, and seeking work"; another 300,000 are "unemployed, not in school, and not seeking work." Of the latter the gloomy survey observes: "When one has been without a job for . . . years, the ambition to secure a position gradually subsides...
...Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last sum mer discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts. The picture will be shown in 20 U. S. cities as a "road show" attraction before being displayed at lower prices in ordinary cinemansions...
...biologist in the making was doing penance one Saturday morning for his sins of omission. He was laboriously copying a vast chart, spread over two or three large tables, that was designed to explain to Anti-Clerics the Evolution of animal life, from the little Protozoa to the lower Chordates (a large group ranging all the way from she-flirts to sea-squirts). All of a sudden, into the privacy of the lonely laboratory came a troupe of smiling adults, all intent on edification. Solemnly and yet enthusiastically they took their places at the shining black tables. Then...