Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Newspaper Publishers' Association adopted a resolution urging Congress to lower postal rates for newspapers (these rates now range from 50% to 900% higher than before the War). A committee on Freedom of the Press was appointed to investigate the doings of outside censors...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...
...with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome book about the War, The Enormous Room, and of many poems, some of them good, some of them...
...other shortcoming in his tabulation is that there are too many exceptions to permit any blanket conclusions being drawn. Most important of these exceptions seem to be the low grade men at college who had the ability to be higher grade. In these cases lower grades cannot be taken as an indications of lack of ability...
Coach Brown had originally scheduled the race to take place in the Charles River Basin but a brought time-trial experienced early in the afternoon by the first 150-pound crew of Coach C. S. Heard '25 convinced him that the lower course was unnavigable...