Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last calendar year there were 1,000 subscriptions cancelled by these rather uninteresting people who cannot bear to read an opinion which differs from their own. . . . That means 2,000 subscriptions to pay by the "Friends Of TIME," or some $10,000 (although you might make a lower price for the quantity). Say that only 20,000 of your readers "joined" at 50? each; the 2,000 subscriptions are covered...
Last year Soviet lawyers won several seemingly important victories for their clients in lower New York State courts. Last week in Albany these decisions were reversed by the State Court of Appeals, obviously much struck by the brazenness of the Soviet Government in attempting to enforce contracts which its own decrees had canceled...
From the student viewpoint the report points out that there are a large number of lower-than-average students who have not "been brought to the point where they are able to take their studies into their own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer...
...preserving morale among the jobless. Hence, in final draft, the conference recommended reductions of Federal relief expenditures, the return of relief to the states as far as practical; declared public works undertaken for the sole object of providing jobs as wasteful; advised that work relief pay should be lower than the rate paid by industry, to encourage private reemployment...
Winter sports, for which Quebec is famous, will include skating, tobogganing, curling, skiing, hockey, dog-sled racing, ski contests and snowshoeing, and are under the supervision of J. G. Strathdee, Sports Director. An interesting side trip is afforded by a visit to the ancient "Lower Town...