Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universal observance of mourning, it was remarked that the German Embassy did not lower its flag to half staff. Protests arose in the press and elsewhere Ambassador Wiedfeldt announced that the German Government regarded Woodrow Wilson as only a private citizen and that the flag would be placed at half staff only on the day of the funeral. Meanwhile the Embassy flew no flag. In the early hours of one morning an unidentified group nailed an American flag to the Embassy staff. It was removed later by the police...
...beet sugar growers of Utah and other centres have strongly supported this tariff. And the sugar refineries and the American companies producing cane sugar in Louisiana, Cuba and elsewhere have strongly opposed it. Without the tariff, the American beet sugar industry is doomed, since it cannot compete with the lower costs of producing Cuban sugars. With the tariff, we have a situation analogous to taxing American sugar consumers in order to subsidize the domestic beet sugar industry...
...Elias &; Bros. of Buffalo. Equipped with two 700-horse-power motors, the new plane will carry a deadly destructive load of 6,900 pounds of bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second in size only to the great Barling Bomber...
...years Harvard has had all election complex. Either the lower classmen are submitted to the boredom of the perfunctory process of raising the necessary sixty per cent, or the Seniors are worked up to a nervous pitch in the effort to pay just and final honors to this or that candidate who has shown his worth throughout his college career. Indifference and over-emphasis are unhappy extremes, but luckily traditional indifference in the lower class elections can do no serious damage. If classes want to spend several days drumming up enough votes to elect nominal officers no real harm...
...students, headed by Charles Joseph Hubbard '24 of Boston, has been appointed to make plans for that part of the ceremony which will take place in the College Yard. The committee consists of the three Senior class Marshals, the President of the Student Council, the Presidents of the three lower classes, and a representative from each of the graduate and professional schools. The Citizens' Committee is now in the process of formation. Its membership, which will consist of many national figures, will be announced later...