Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown eyes were those of Bella, a Swiss cow who is the pet & pride of President Hainisch. For years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck...
...neglect their work to accomplish the same end. Public spirited members of the faculty are wondering why on earth they gave that football man an A instead of an E. The student body is holding informal parties in the rooms of the erring football men in vain attempts to lower the abominated high grades. Everybody, with three exceptions, is doing his best to remedy the disgraceful situation. Meanwhile the three scholars are wondering just how they are going to earn their living when they leave college this spring...
...survey conducted by Popular Science Monthly shows that the actual costs of flying among amateur pilots is much lower than generally supposed. Planes cost from $400 to $12,000, with the average around $3,000, about the cost of a Pierce-Arrow automobile. Hangar rental costs from $15 to $50 a month, with the average...
...lines are low and rakish. The lower part of the body is green with a belt of yellow and-red striping around the door and window molding. The rear seat in the passenger compartment is large enough to accommodate three fares. There is a single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...
...Langford, president of the Richmond Radiator Co., announced profits of $438,297 for 1927 (profits for 1926 were $612,962); explained, "Only once before in the past 17 years have the selling prices of boilers been lower...