Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of Sophomores known as "Mr. Levinsky" have hoodwinked lower classmen from the mysterious stronghold, "Porter 1367," for several days, with a marvelous mind reading phenomenon. Their prestige is falling off, however, since the discovery of their domicile in Russell Hall...
...disease in America, topped only by organic heart diseases, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Whether the increased cancer rate is actual or merely apparent on account of earlier diagnosis and improved registration is a question which has not been settled by hygienists. Only five states-Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Wisconsin-showed lower cancer mortality in 1922 than in 1921. New Hampshire had the highest rate, 136.9, and South Carolina the lowest...
England. The British Registrar General announced the year's figures for England and Wales almost simultaneously. The deathrate was 12.8 per 1,000, an increase over 1921, when it was 12.1. The British deathrate is lower than that of any other major European country, and would be still lower if corrected for a normal age and sex distribution, which has been sadly out of kilter since...
...Post changed hands in consideration of a sum variously reported as $1,600,000 and $3,600,000. The lower sum is probably the more accurate guess, since its circulation is about 30,000, with a Saturday edition of about 55,000. A large part of the purchase price is understood to take the form of the assumption of obligations contracted by the present owners to Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. when they purchased the paper from him less than two years...
...Pathfinder, a reputable weekly published in Washington, announced the birth in Pennsylvania of a baby, having "no spine, no ribs, no hip bones. . . . The lower part of the body tapers to an end that has the appearance of a hand or foot, web-like in formation...