Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have struck a popular chord, but your price is outrageous. Put it at $2 and you would soon have millions of subscribers and would leave no room for imitators at a lower price...
...experiment, if the railroads and all of their men would earnestly and collectively devote themselves to economic accomplishment, the savings would more than equal one-half present labor cost. If, as a condition of this co-operative effort, proportionate shares of the resultant added profits were reflected in lower rates to the public, in added profits to the owners, and a fair participation to the employes, the men, by investing this added wage en bloc through their trustees, could within ten years acquire by purchase in the open market a controlling interest in the railroads by which they are employed...
...courses, concerning, it must be, the new cosmos. When last spring, it was announced that chiefly juniors would handle the advisory work, coming seniors regarded the matter quite with approval, and a new era for the system appeared in the greater freedom of the lower classmen. The hope then raised, the present report now substantiates. Advisers have gone to their advisees with more completeness than in other years, have held office hours at the freshman hails themselves...
...region dread these annual hurricanes. Their source is usually in the Caribbean, where an initial whirling motion is caused by the expansion of moist air over tropical waters. They then generally pursue a northern course gradually increasing in intensity so long as they remain over water. Curiously, due to lower barometric pressure on the southernmost side, the southern semicircle of these hurricanes is comparatively harmless. Mariners refer to the northern half as "the dangerous semi-circle," and the southern half as the "navigable semi-circle." They can usually rely upon "riding out" the "navigable semicircle" at anchor...
Said a critic: "After an evening's debauch among the vital pages of the Graphic, after a thorough perusal of the lore of 'Body-Love' Macfadden, the Manhattan 'Mr. Hyde' slinks into bed. The next morning, repentant of the sins of his lower self, 'Dr. Jekyll' emerges from the metamorphosic sleep, rushes to the nearest newsstand to buy the Times. Then, as he sips his breakfast coffee, he reads in neat, encyclopaedic columns -all the news that's fit to print.' But when the day's work is done, when...