Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereas wheat has risen about 50% in price during the past year, corn about 70%, oats about 40%, hogs about 40%, lambs about 25%; and whereas cotton, though lower in price is compensated by a larger crop, yet the prices for range cattle remain persistently low. Fattened cattle, from the cowbelt have risen some-what in price. But the raisers of range cattle have had no profit since 1921 and most of them are "broke." What they need, it is said, is liberal financing, on easy terms...
...Glacier National Park, heavy snows drove elk and deer into the lower valleys, out of the park. Some 15 are known to have been killed...
...will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New York, blanket nearly all of Connecticut and much of Rhode Island and go out to sea about...
...cafeteria used Memorial Hall kitchen. But serving both "Mem" and the "Caff" the kitchen was utilized up to its minimum capacity, at least. Instead of moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups...
...Budapest, the Hungarian Supreme Court confirmed the finding of a lower court-namely, that Count Michael Karolyi (TIME, July 16, 1923) was guilty of high treason (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924). The Supreme Court also up- held the previous sentence of confiscation of all his personal and entailed property, amounting to many millions of dollars. All that was allowed from the estate, before it became State property was $42,000 for legal fees to Karolyi's attorney. The report on the findings of the Supreme Court was obviously incomplete ; no mention was made of the Count's defense that...