Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity. Abolished. In addition many minor taxes were abolished, including those on the following items: Cameras, films, firearms, ammunition, smokers' articles, slot machines, mah jong sets, objets d'art, jewelry, bowling alleys and pool rooms, shooting galleries, riding academies, yachts, deeds and conveyances. Taxes on lower-priced cigars were reduced...
...state should not be taxed for the extensive improvements needed in the southern part; that the two parts are different climatically and industrially. The proposed dividing line would cross the state east and west from a point on the Atlantic about 40 miles south of St. Augustine, to the lower part of the Suwanee River, which would be the boundary-thence to the Gulf-leaving 33 counties in South Florida and 34 counties in North Florida...
...Geological Lecture Room at 10 to hear Professor parker in another. Biology I has been reversed this year, so that zoology follows the other sciences which make up that comprehensive course. Professor parker will discuss the natural history of the higher animals, having treated that of the lower animals last week...
...sanitary purposes than is now allowed: "Chicago now presents the brazen spectacle of undertaking to induce the national Congress to sanctify a bold theft into an honest act. We strenuously protest against any legislation at the hands of Congress that may sanction the abstraction of water likely to lower the levels of the Great Lakes...
...coincided almost exactly with her father's entrance into public life. He had been a Deichauptmann; that is, he had been responsible for the care of the dykes along the Elbe. In 1847, one year before Maria was born, he was chosen as substitute for a representative of the lower nobility to attend the Estates-General, which that year assembled at Berlin. To Berlin he went. The rest is too well known...