Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negative quality of the figures that may cause the more hopeful supporters of the Reading Period qualms of uneasiness. At the end of the first full year under the new system it was announced that the averages of the A, B, and high C, men were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than...
...wife unjustly suspected at the start. Her husband attempts to kill her because of his belief that she is unfaithful. The shots stir in her a spirit of rebellion which sends her out, in spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much of his play vanishes...
Familiar even to Western minds is the endlessly-turning Buddhist wheel-of-life. The wheel represents the cycle of conception, life, death, ascent to a higher plane (or descent to a lower); then reincarnation; and then, again, conception, life, death, ascent...
...knows what causes underlie the discrimination against 40-year-oldsters. Older men are discharged and younger men hired, thinks Labor, to keep down the average employe age upon which group insurance premiums are reckoned and paid. Unmarried men are in greater demand than family men because of the lower payments to be made under workmen's compensation laws...
Inasmuch as the Straus purchase was for five-fourths of a seat, there still remained the question of what quarter-seats, sold separately, would bring. The bear market caused by the Federal Reserve's attack on speculative loans (see p. 47) may well lower seat prices since speculation by the general public is always on a bull market. A bear market generally means less trading for seat-holder, fewer commissions...