Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...appeared to "catch." He suggested an unpaid board of tax experts to study equalization of tax schedules and to simplify them so that anyone can understand them. Both his Republican and his Democratic hearers appeared to like this idea. He said Secretary Mellon was "eternally right" in saying that lower surtaxes would yield more revenue. He wanted much lower inheritance taxes?say, 15% instead of 40% maximum?but did not think they should be abolished. He wanted a board created to clear up ancient tax cases from 1916 and 1917 "with an axe if need be." He wanted salaries...
...head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player south of Panama...
...Rally, Friends, Rally! I am making a fight through the Forum for good government, good schools, religious and political freedom and lower taxes in Texas, and I will appreciate it personally if you will help me in this fight by sending in your subscription to the Forum at once...
...lower halves of these sections have been assigned to the holders of tickets for applied for by the team and coaches, and as many undergraduates as could be accommodated. The remaining students in the University have been assigned the best seats available in Sections 4 and 7. All those who received tickets not in these four sections must enter the Stadium by Gate One or Three...