Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single and several), pruning hooks, cantaloupes, dynamos, surgical dressings, sanitary napkins and abdominal supports...
...condition resulted from no outburst of pyromania, but from an almost complete stoppage in U. S. housebuilding. In 1925, new homes were built for nearly 500,000 families. In 1934, only 22,000 families were provided with new shelter. Yet even in Depression, which brings fewer marriages and a lower birth rate, the U. S. population was increasing at the rate of about 400,000 families a year. Result: an acute housing shortage demonstrated by the fact that U. S. residences are now only 4% vacant, while U. S. office buildings are 26% vacant...
...members of the middle class in the Eng- lish Rebellion of the 1640's, in the French Revolution and in the American War of Independence, Lewis Corey finds that they have been alternately revolutionary and reactionary, at times struggling against the monarchy or the nobles, at times suppressing lower-class radical movements. Thus, before the War of Independence, small shopkeepers, artisans, craftsmen, made common cause with dispossessed laborers against wealthy British merchants and colonial aristocrats, turned on their allies when the "independent plebeian phase" of the movement became strong...
...even those oldtimers had pyorrhea. On exhibit from Northwestern University was a ponderous Stone Age flint hammer, presumably an early instrument for curing dental hurts since it was found with a little heap of broken teeth. In making and fitting false teeth, dentists have found it harder to make lower plates stay put than uppers. Drs. Charles Shepard Tuller and Sydney C. Fournet of New Orleans disclosed a "Revolutionary mechanical principle utilized to produce full lower dentures surpassing in stability the best modern upper dentures." Presidents. Each year A. D. A. elects a president to take office the following year...
...book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused by the old typographical character for the lower case "s". It is no funnier to one who is familiar with the period than the fact that men then were knee-breeches and not trousers. But Mr. Thompson quotes paragraph after paragraph to show how ludicrous this custom was, and it affords him an opportunity...