Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is here, we think, a principle rather than academic question at stake. We should like to see the three universities mentioned at the opening of this comment work toward this end with the new ruling as to lower salaries as the first step toward it." Yale Alumni Weekly...
Much of the beauty of the chapel is due to the large stained window, the work of John LaFarge of New York, which occupies the center of the picture in Widener. The window is divided into six panels, three upper ones and three lower ones. The lower set of panes are decorated with a picture of St. John baptising a child, while the upper row is taken up with the coat of arms of Great Britain, flanked on one side with the shield of Harvard University, and on the other by the shield of Emmanuel College, the alma mater...
...discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced away from the staff-and away from the enemy. Two years ago, the error was discovered and the entire coat of arms...
...evils which were combatted in that third decade ago. One was the formation of pools and price-fixing agreements with the aim of driving smaller competitors out of business. The other was a form of connivance between certain favored companies and various railways so that those companies might have lower freight rates than their competitors...
...during the summer, Lief Ericson's hotel is crowded. Lief Ericson's hotel, you know, is in Battery Park; named, of course, from the statue of the Viking in the lobby. And along lower Broadway the poor devils 'bum' for coffee and beans...