Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent") cold wave should have sent the mercury down five degrees lower than any previous temperature which has been officially recorded. It is conceivable that the hydrostatic pressure was increased in some way by the war psychology, and the resisting power of the neighboring warmer air decreased, but it would be hard to maintain any such thesis as that. The simple fact is that...
During the recess, the Widener Library will close at 5.30 o'clock. The Lower Reading Room will be open from 9 to 1 o'clock only, and books may be taken out at 12 o'clock to be returned at 9 o'clock the next day. The libraries on the third floor will be open from 9 to 5 o'clock on week-days and on Saturdays from 9 to 12 o'clock...
...draft age were lowered to nineteen, it seems highly probable that Harvard would be overtaken by the same sort of situation as that which has developed during these last three years at Oxford and Cambridge. I have been told that at Oxford at the present moment there are no more than 120 undergraduates; the situation at Cambridge being approximately the same. The dons, or, as we should say, the faculty, have had their incomes from all sources reduced at least one-half or two-thirds in most cases. While it is difficult to estimate situations of this sort before-hand...
According to Senator Ramsay of Illinois, who voiced the opinion of many, "It will not be necessary to lower the draft age at the present time to 19. We have 10,000,000 men registered, and if half of them are eligible physically and in other respects, this will be as many men as we will need for a year...
...Economic, political, and intellectual developments combined to make the old regime impossible," Dr. Lord said "but the autocrats in power, or rather the bureaucrats around them, refused to make any concessions to the lower classes. When the revolution did come, however, the government collapsed in a most shameful way. It was obnoxious to the whole country and in spite of the awful conditions at present, practically no one is willing to have the autocracy again...