Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most recent outstanding U. S.-Canadian relationship was the movement to arrange a reciprocal tariff agreement with Canada (1911) by which each country would lower its protective tariff duties on the other's products. Canadian reciprocity was a pet issue of William Howard Taft, the measure was passed in the U. S. Congress by a combination of Democratic and Republican votes and injured President Taft with many members of his own party. The President's victory was then made to appear somewhat futile when the Canadians overthrew the Laurier Liberal government, which supported the reciprocity movement...
...that the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes monthly "an unemployment index which shows the trend of employment, that is, whether the number employed is increasing or decreasing." The latest (April) report of this nature by the Department of Labor declares: "The level of employment in April, 1927 was 2.4% lower than in April, 1926, and pay roll totals were .6% lower...
...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
...CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary...
Work is progressing rapidly on the foundation of the new building of the Manter Hall School at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets. The stores on the lower floor will be ready on September 15, while the rest of the building will be ready for the occupancy of the school on October...