Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotels and restaurants reported butchers' bills up 37%. Dun & Bradstreet's wholesale food index covering 31 different items has climbed 7% since the year end, now standing 30% above February 1934, 83% above February 1933. Only a few staples like potatoes, cabbages, onions, bananas are selling lower than a year...
With less than a month of the Eastern Intercollegiate League's basketball season to go, a comparison of the standings of the teams is both interesting and enlightening, especially in reference to the recent games. The remarkable peregrinations of the Crimson team from the lower reaches of the standing to a tie for third place, and then back to sixth place within the past few weeks serve to show the closeness of the race, and the lack of disparity between the teams...
...piratical point,* the prosecution argued that anyhow the Death penalty must be meted out, "because otherwise a bad example would be set," encouraging desperadoes of all races to commit piracy and seek haven at Dairen. This lucid view impressed the Japanese judges. They not only confirmed the lower court's sentence of Death upon Captain Taudien and Butcher Westermann, considered the ringleaders, but ordered the life sentences of Silk Tester Gautschi and Mechanic Müller stiffened to execution. Only Mechanic Schroeder, whose protestations of "my innocence, so help me, Mein Gott!" have been especially moving...
United Air Lines could also point to the fact that a round-trip between New York and Detroit on one of its planes costs $62.46, meals free; that a round-trip by train with lower berth costs $62.40, meals extra. (American Airlines fare is the same as United, with a $2 additional charge each way for berth...
Alfred Baker Lewis, active member of the Socialistic party of Massachusetts and gubernatorial candidate in several past elections, will be the guest speaker of the Union Society's meeting this evening at 7:15 o'clock in the Lower Common Room of the Union...