Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced he would not consider pardoning Convict Mooney until his efforts to prove his innocence legally had been finally ruled on in Court. Last year, the Supreme Court refused to review the case on the ground that Convict Mooney had not yet "exhausted every resource'' in the lower courts. Last autumn, the California Supreme Court handed down a verdict against Convict Mooney which enabled him to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court a second time on the grounds that he was denied his constitutional rights. Final Supreme Court decision on Convict Mooney is likely to be handed...
...teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around and was writing rapidly by his own method. Starting in the lower right-hand corner of his paper, his first line would go like this...
Orthodox Church. With no legal power to prevent its ratification, Orthodox Church followers (about half the population) proceeded to riot when the Lower House of Parliament ratified the concordat (TIME...
...Freshman class will parade its talent in an another "amateur" show tomorrow night unlike the one given last fall, prizes will be given from the remaining profit of the first Yardling dance. The performance is to be given in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:15 o'clock Sunday and will be judged by three officers of the University, among them Colonel Apted...
Investigation shows, however, that Williams placed in 17 events, while Hutter, last year's top point-getter, swam in only 12 events, accounting for his lower aggregate. Willie Kendall placed fifth in all-league totals, scoring 44 points. After him is Graham Cummin, who is ninth with 38 points; Dario Berizzi, who is sixteenth with 29 points...