Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error of blindness. Even animals when caring for their young show some capacity for altruism. This same capacity is the basis of the higher strivings of man. No new principle has been introduced in his composition; but man's superior brain gives him greater power to control his lower instincts in a way possessed by every animal in small part. This is what makes him a man, and he remains a man in proportion as the law of this higher nature triumphs over the law of his lower nature...
...golden horseshoe" is so called because its 35 boxes?the lower row, known as the parterre?are roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, the stage being in the heel. A gala night at the opera concentrates about as much wealth in this broken ellipse as in any other given spot on the earth's surface...
...Majesty King Gustav accepted the resignation and invited Dr. Hjalmar Branting, ex-Premier and leader of the Social-Democratic (Socialist) Party, to form a Cabinet. Although his party is in a minority of 32 in the lower house, it was considered possible that he would be able to effect an agreement with the Agrarians and so convert the minority into a majority...
MINICK?Observant comedy of lower middle-class existence and what happens when father-in-law arrives for an endless visit...
...many strange vicissitudes, brought forth still another surprise yesterday when Debevoise, seeded sixth, defeated Gordon, the third player seeded, in three sets, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. This places Debevoise in the semi-final round in the upper half of the draw with Cummings, while in the lower half, Allen and Perkins remain...