Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Applications for the second group of tickets for the exercises on Class Day are due on Friday, according to an announcement made last night by Madison Sayles '27, chairman of the Class Day Committee. All seniors who wish to take advantage of the lower prices offered by the applications in this group must have their applications in by that date...
Sirs: Your statement that a private train costing $375,000 has just been purchased for the President of Mexico (TIME, May 9) is robbed of all significance by your failure to allude to the practice of sleeping in an ordinary "lower" which is observed by the President of the United States.* Let me tell you that our President gains nothing by this practice, and certainly our country gains nothing. Is there a man or woman in the U. S. who would have less respect for our President if he traveled in the world's finest private train, costing perhaps...
...dress affected by President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the German Reichsbank. There was a dash of Roosevelt and more than a tang of Dawes in certain words spoken by Dr. Schacht, last week, which caused prices on the Berlin Bourse to break and go crashing down harder and lower than at any time since...
Higher education, like lower religion, was once regarded as a field for commercial exploitation. Indeed, "diploma mills" still flourish, teaching all things from ethics to how-to-be-a-Prohibition-agent...
...lower house of the Illinois legislature has called for a state referendum on the whole question an example which other legislatures might do well to follow. The votes of the citizens are the only statistics which can put an end to the welter of opposing figures, of can vasses and straw votes, stirred up by the wets and drys, and they might have some effect, as well, on the hidden forces which foment in Washington. As it is both supporters of and objectors against the eighteenth amendment must admit that its machinery needs readjusting...