Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owing to an annually growing demand, culminating last year in the printing of 1000 extra copies to take care of late subscribers, the price reduction was deemed timely. The Committee also took into consideration the possibility that more copies could be sold at a lower price...
Goldcoasters will dance to the strains of transcribed music tomorrow night in an informal dance in the Lower Common Room. Festivities will begin at 8 o'clock and last until the usual 12 p.m. curfew...
...YORK--Encouraging business news failed to aid the stock market today prices slipping irregularly lower on profit-taking in a dull session...
While in Burma, the party discovered traces of a civilization totally different from Europe's first signs of man in the lower-Paleolithic age. Whereas the cave men of the primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...
...that he began to catch up on his times only when he was out of office. Retired to Northampton, turning out his autobiography at $5 a word and a short syndicated column at $3.25 a word, brooding disgustedly over Hoover's shortcomings, watching his gilt-edged investments sink lower & lower, Coolidge at last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look back I can see nothing...