Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate's are wrapped in gloom. Only the most intrepid explorer...
...Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke, stricken with pneumonia, sank low, and lower. Oxygen was finally administered and some recovery noted; but tearful, fatalistic members of Nicholas' entourage seemed to sense and fear that the old warrior was joining his last battle with Death...
Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores...
Another difference was the distribution of water. The Colorado drains seven States -Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California. The first four, the Upper Tier, have long been agreed on their shares of the water. The Lower Tier-Nevada, Arizona, California -have long quarreled about how to divide the 7,500,000 acre-feet that they will get between them. Nevada was satisfied with 300,000 acre feet; California wanted 4,600,000, Arizona 3,000.000. After sharp remarks between California's whitecrested Johnson and Arizona's long-embattled Ashurst and Hayden, the Senate voted Nevada...
...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...