Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voters. The voters who had called on the King, the radical farmers, he knew would vote against him. Though his Government was under no compulsion to face an election for another year, he last week got a decree from hard-jawed King Christian proroguing Parliament, dissolving the lower house (Folketing) and calling for new parliamentary elections...
...dangerous report ever made within my knowledge by any committee of the school system. . . . Let us follow this through logically. A pupil enrolls in the elementary schools, spends six years there without being required to meet any standards, and passes on to the junior high school, which must then lower its standard to meet his. He goes on to the high school, where the same process is repeated. Then he goes on to college, which will also not require him to meet any standards. From there he goes to medical school, where the same conditions obtain. He gets his degree...
...fall tournament for the tennis championship of the College progress of the lower bracket has proceeded to the semi-finals...
...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...
...Germans the Holy Land is not in Palestine but our Holy Land is the place, wherever it may be, upon which Germans have descended. Our holy places are certain castles on the Rhine, the good earth of Lower Saxony and the Prussian fortress of Marienburg...