Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
...must soon report on their year's work. Last week, busy with his report, Secretary of War Davis could not help brimming over about one of his subsidiary concerns, the Inland Waterways Corp. This Federal company operates barge lines on the Warrior River (Alabama) and on upper and lower reaches, of the Mississippi. It showed a $277,782 net income for nine 1928 months, compared to $45,507 at the same time last year...
...flames reared high, last week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White Armies" during the Bolshevist Revolution. Son-of-Ivan. The Kulak murders of last week did not foreshadow...
...nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into the nursing profession, in order to secure adequate protection of the public...
These three teams will play a series of matches during the following week. Any man in a lower team defeating a man in the team above him will automatically take his place...