Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desired to set a new lower par for the sharpshooters, well and good, but do not take all the joy away from the Average Golfer...
...girl babies born with hairline eyebrows, purple lips and green fingernails, and I don't know what color toenails; but they are born the same as they were 20,000 years ago. And the boy babies, if God had been open-minded, would be born with one shoulder lower than the other, so they could more conveniently lean on a shovel...
...entire upperclass group who tutor, 22 per cent received scholarships or hold outside jobs, 3 per cent lower than the Freshmen who tutor, received through the Student Employment Office. 29 per cent of the commuters who tutor hold scholarships, 12 per cent of those who live in boarding houses and who tutor receive scholarships...
...president, Ernest Tener Weir, still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
...trays in millions of Japanese homes last week the lower jaws of billions of fat worms were steadily spinning filaments of silk. This valuable regurgitation has gone on in Japan for centuries but rarely has it been such a source of interest to the outside world. For in the next few weeks enough cocoons will have come to market for the silk industry to estimate the size of the 1939-40 crop. And upon that size depends: 1) the immediate outcome of the, tightest U. S. silk squeeze in history, 2) the fate of certain speculators, 3) whether the cost...