Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contention of Ray Dumont, president of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, that arbiters should demand and get respect from the fans. The best way to do this, Dumont contends, is to eliminate any duties that "lower" them in the eyes of fans...
...agree that an umpire belittles himself by dusting off a plate? The semi-pro umpires will never have to lower themselves again...
...faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native young animal, "Sitting Burro," Mr. Rubenstein expresses the height of his ability to characterize in a few, sure lines. His pen sketches show extreme accuracy. Rarely does he discard a stroke. Instead of water colors...
...these statements, a group of nine Manhattan physicians including Drs. Ernst Philip Boas and Henry Rawle Geyelin of Columbia, and Drs. Foster Kennedy and Henry Barker Richardson of Cornell sent Manhattan colleagues a mimeographed campaign sheet of brief, basic arguments for health insurance. Compulsory health insurance, they said, would lower the "financial burden of illness by spreading the cost over . . . large groups of people. It would enable the sick to seek medical treatment early in disease. ... It would enable the physician to give more adequate care to [poor] patients because such care would not entail an added financial burden...
...this neglected locale, Fiesta In Manhattan is the first novel of a 34-year-old New Jerseyite, who discovered Lower Harlem's barrio by way of Mexico, where he spent a year as the happy alternative to going into his father's silk business...