Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record as a pacifist and obstructionist was comparable to that of William Randolph Hearst. He voted for the despicable Bonus Bill for the same mercenary reasons as did the other renegade Republicans and Democrats. In doing this he joined those who defeated the wise plan of Secretary Mellen to lower the country's taxes. He is said to represent the American farmer--his real supporters are dissatisfied German, Polish, and Swedish farmers of the Northwest. In no respect does he, represent the real American farmer in New England or the Middle West...
...their ambitions will be surprised to learn that so far as the Office is concerned they are and will continue to be in the course, even if they never see the inside of the lecture hall, unless they give the Committee on the Choice of Electives, located in the lower recesses of University Hall, formal notice of their withdrawal...
...July for North Rhodesia, South Africa, to visit his brother, Wynant Davis Hubbard '21, also an old Harvard football star. According to information received by his friends in Cambridge. Hubbard failed to find his brother and as a result spent one month making a 300 mile tour of lower Africa on a bicycle...
...eating wolves roam the central and southern provinces, according to information from Rome. During the past two months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
...brokers have frankly thrown up their hands and are renting for what they can get-a situation boding ill for "shoestring" holders. In other places, the real estate profession staunchly declare rentals will not come down. In some localities, this may be true. Meanwhile, renters are holding back for lower rates-a tendency against which even New York realtors solemnly inveigh. Money continues very easy and very cheap. First mortgages run high, however, and second mortgages bear exorbitant interest rates...