Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increase in population 313,517 Despite this the birth rate was 19.7 per mille, the lowest figure on record for a normal year; the death rate was also lower at 11.6 per mille. The year as a whole was said to be the healthiest on record...
Presently, two Americans, American-born, will become Cardinals. A few years ago they were playing in the streets of Manhattan's East Side. "Lower East Side kids" they were. One was Pat Hayes, the other George Mundelein...
House of Commons. The second reading of a till to lower the age limit of women electors from 30 to 21 was passed in the House by 288 votes to 72. If the bill is finally passed, it will mean an addition of 4,500,000 women, making a total of 12,400,000 women against 10,500,000 men. All the women M. P.'s supported the bill except the Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson. The Duchess said that since a conference had set the age limit, a conference should revise it. She also commented adversely...
...cases, some pain fibres escaped the knife. Said Surgeon Spiller: "It requires on the part of the operator a visualization of the microscopic anatomy of the cord and a realization that a slight misplacement of the incision may cause motor-paralysis of one or both of the lower limbs...
...newly acquired Chile Copper Co. properties, Anaconda is a high-cost producer, and with the red metal selling about 15% below even the 1913 price, cannot expect to operate its old deep-shaft mines at much, if any, profit. With such companies as Kennecott, Chile, Utah or Miami, the lower costs of production make present copper prices more profitable...