Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plume of Alexei Maximovich Pyeshko, son of a dyer, onetime bootmaker, famed for his Defoe-esque novels and for his great drama, The Lower Depths...
England brought her religious complexion out into the sunlight last week when the preliminary results of two questionnaires were announced. The ponderous "lower middle class," which historians delight in calling the backbone of the nation, voted 75% solidly for Christianity in the London Daily News poll. But the suave sophisticates, the dreamy litterateurs who read the Nation and Athenaeum (London weekly) leaned toward atheism, agnosticism...
...arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building program. 2) "A protective tariff sufficiently high to cover the difference between the cost of living here and abroad, 12 per cent lower than the Payne-Aldrich rates, 20 per cent below the Dingley rates and with 60 per cent of all importations on the free list." Due to this tariff protection, the value of the farm crop is 30% higher than it was in 1921; our national wealth is greater than that...
...Herelle did not set out, as did Dr. Crile, to explain the nature of life or of death. His chief interest has been with diseases and their causes. He has dealt with what once was considered the lowest form of life- bacteria. He has ended by hypothesizing an even lower form, the protobe, which is neither animal nor vegetable,-simply something living. One type of protobe, the bacteriophage, he has made his peculiar study. He has found that it is the scourge to bacteria, which in turn cause disease in man. Just as almost every disease has some causative species...
...rayon fabrics groused at foreign yarn makers. These broke the price of U. S. yarns by shipping (in 1925) 5,441,000 lbs. of yarn (one-tenth of the total U. S. consumption) here. Fabric makers had large stocks of expensive yarn on hand, none the less had to lower cloth prices. As a result one great manufacturer, the American Rayon Products Corp., last week was forced to pass its regular 50? dividend...