Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respective Crimson and Blue affiliations in other important New England cities are as follows: Newton, 360 to 20; Newton Center, 280 to 26; Newton Highlands, 85 to 4; Newtonville, 160 to 19; Newton Lower Falls, 4 to 2; Newton Upper Falls, 7 to 1; and West Newton, 130 to 8. Fig Newton was not listed...
...with the affairs of the Kingdom of God, the General Convention, whose deliberations were to last a fortnight, took its time getting down to business. Bishops and their wives dressed up in their considerable best to dine formally at the Netherland Plaza. Members of the General Convention's lower legislative house, clerical and lay deputies, gazed appreciatively at such convention exhibits as the handsome trailer which is host Bishop Hobson's Cathedral (TIME, April 19), the posters and photographs of the zealous, two-year-old Church Society for College Work, the "barracks" of the hardworking, uniformed Church Army...
...bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California, in 38 days...
...attempt to defy rising prices of meat and similar commodities. At present the cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase the rates and also lower the quality. The latter possibility is almost as intolerable as sand...
...receiving modified tutorial will be watched care- fully by the Department. Ordinarily these will be those whose records indicate little possibility of an honors degree, but if they improve, they can be shifted to Plan "A" at any time. Burbank knows of several cases where men in the lower group have been allowed to become candidates for honors and have been successful...