Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts can carry off, and the excess overflows the lower eyelids onto the cheeks. This phenomenon has been occurring on all sides in recent weeks as police heaved gas grenades which spurted clouds of white fumes into the eyes and nostrils of strike mobs in seven States...
...public the highest possible quality of medical service. As long as human beings are themselves not standardized it will not be possible to provide them with a standardized doctor. Every system of medicine and every change in the nature of medical practice which breaks down this relationship tends to lower the quality of medical service. It is characteristic of medicine, therefore, that it is practiced as an art and as a science, without any reference to hours of work or any fixed formula for its administration. These are the characteristics of the profession and the question which we must answer...
With another bathing-suit season at hand, local lawmakers are aiming their ordinances at males on the score of topless suits* rather than at underclad females. A five-year-old male bathing lawsuit came to trial last week in Chicago but an alleged lower exposure, not an upper, had started it. And though the fight was between two-lawyers, the only persons hurt were three policemen...
Harvard strategy, it was learned last night, will be to let the Yales lead for the first mile, but at that point it is expected that Harvard, rowing a lower stroke, will pass them and should hold its advantage. The Harvard stroke in practice and time trials has been continually lower than Yale...
...appreciate is the complete confusion that overtakes The City (London's financial district) during a good gold scare. The British Empire is the world's greatest gold producer, the world's biggest investor in gold mining stocks. London, moreover, is a world commodity centre, and lower gold means lower commodities. Also, London is the world's leading free gold market. Hundreds of millions in bullion were stored in London during Depression when paper money was slipping its gold moorings...