Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches carried a significant statement attributed to officials of the Bureau: "There has been too much drinking of pulque* by prospective mothers among the lower classes...
...Perkins '26 yesterday beat H.N. Rawlins '27, and today will meet R.S. Wright '26 in the lower half of the College squash tournament...
...give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most active leader in the revolt against all this realism, by that dare-devil of the Russian drama Nicolai Nicolaevich Evreinov...
...typical human beings gathered in a boarding house. Evreinov does not have his boarders completely transformed as Jerome K. Jerome did in his more sentimental "Passing of the Third Floor Back"; nor does he have them so quickly return to their misery as does the stern Gorki in his "Lower Depths...
...states. But actual spindle hours last September were 248 in southern cotton-growing states as compared with only 131 in New England?showing that southern textile mills get much more actual use out of their machinery than is the case in New England, and consequently can operate at much lower costs...