Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when you live on the tenth floor* of a hotel. Leaning out of the window of her apartment in the Hotel Charlotte (Charlotte, N. C.) a certain Mrs. A. A. Barren propped a heavy green box, filled with earth and flower seeds, on a corner of the ledge before lowering it to a little stone shelf that ran around the building a foot lower down. She reflected on the long way her garden would fall...
...dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...
...high jump the rangy pair of Cardinal athletes, King and Work tied for the first two places with a mark of 6 feet 2 1-4 inches. Hampton of California, Norton of Georgetown, and Coggeshall of U. S. C. captured the remaining three places with slightly lower marks. In the hammer throw, Biggs of Syracuse turned in the longest heave, followed by Taylor of Pennsylvania and Ide of Penn State...
...talk of the leader of one's faith, even the meanest, in connection with "pussyfoot" and "detour" is to lower the esteem for that leader, held by the most fervent, provided the most fervent has retained his sense of the eternal fitness of things. This convention is about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play...
...realize the merit of the record which half a century of competition has produced for the 120 yard high hurdles. Back in 1920 Earl J. Thomson of Dartmouth flew over the high barriers in 14 2-5 seconds and that mark, made at Philadelphia, will be very hard to lower. There is a possibility that it will be equalled but I doubt if it will be lowered for many years and I also believe that with accurate timing it will not even be equalled for a long time...