Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps can clearly be seen in travelling from the far East to the West as I intend to do on my trip next fall. By visiting all the countries on my itinerary, we shall obtain a concept of the swing of evolution. Opportunity will be given to study the lower forms of animal life, in the case of birds from the cassowary to the bustard, and in the case of mammals from marsupials to elephants and domestic animals, and in the case of humans from the Papuan, with his simple tribal government to the more complex man farther North...
...platter, he is perhaps the most valuable. Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
...bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague...
...business cycles have been largely postilated on our situation, so long continued, as a debtor country. It may be, therefore, that the past will to a smaller extent than ever before indicate probabilities for the future. Also, the abundance of funds in this, country may lead to a generally lower level of interest rates for the coming years ; and a consequent higher price level for fixed investments, as well as a more stabilized price situation generally...
Some time ago, the union miners in the bituminous coal fields enacted high-wage contracts with the operators. As a result, operating costs in the union soft coal fields shot up; and competition has proved difficult with the non-union fields of West Virginia, where lower costs enable operators to cut prices to consumers...