Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this secret conference began in Nanking, Shanghai was gloomier than at any time since the Twenty-One Demands. Last year Japan delivered a quiet, crushing blow to Chinese industry by forcing Generalissimo Chiang to lower tariffs on leading Japanese exports to China and up tariffs on leading imports from the U. S., Britain and Russia (TIME. Aug. 20). So slick and silent was that double-edged trade victory that it made scarcely any news in the Occident. Say glum Shanghai tycoons: "To China the new tariffs are as disastrous as the loss of three provinces." Last week they shivered...
Philbert's mother finds him in the oven. (Caption: "So you stayed in there an' let the roast burn without tellin' Mamma!") Mamma makes Papa remove his suspenders in the street, to lower Philbert into a sewer. ("He thinks he sees a dime, don't he?") Tied to stilts, he helps Mamma sweep the floor. ("Another thing I thought of was sawing the broom off to fit him.'') He walks across the dinner table carrying a heaping dish. ("See if you can't take those Brussels sprouts over to Mrs. Dooley without stepping...
...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
Sargent best Ware by a score of 3-1 in the semi-finals of the lower bracket, and Glidden won in the upper bracket by defeating Ware...
...objection has been raised by the higher officials of University Hall that this is to be a "national university" and that Harvard will have to lower its standards in order to cater to those schools which have not a staff complete enough to teach these languages. Those universities which have lowered their standards in order to get the customers have fallen steadily in the eyes of the academic world, while only Harvard has maintained its requirements and its prestige. And the Harvard roll of applicants has not diminished...