Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity he is sure of a majority, for under Rumania's specially tailored electoral law any party winning 40% of the vote is automatically given 75% of the seats in the Lower Chamber...
...Mexican border, and no U. S. airline can get to California without flying over them. "United," he flatly counter-claimed, "flies fewer miles of mountainous terrain than the currently advertised 'Low Level Route.' Based on a normal airway width the highest point on United is lower than that on the other advertised route.* But," he added hastily, "what of it? United's route has as much sunshine and less annual precipitation, but again-what...
Similar in design to the Holland Tunnel -under the Hudson between lower Manhattan and Jersey City, completed in 1927 and this year used by 13,000,000 vehicles (at 50?& up)-the Lincoln Tunnel was started in 1934 and has cost about $43,000,000 to date. Unlike the two-tube Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel has completed so far only one 21-ft. 6-in. tube, now carrying two-way traffic. The other will be finished in 1941, when each tube will carry one-way traffic. The completed structure lies under 20 feet of silt, 75 feet below...
...eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon. On the lower levels, various elements of back ground drawn in relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks to be photographed. After...
...York's Yiddish theatre district on lower Second Avenue, which has produced such fine actors as Paul Muni, does not often bring forth a popular song. Last week it had apparently turned the trick...