Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preference for New York arises from the superior international value of dollars over pounds sterling. On the other hand, interest rates in the British capital have until recently been lower than in New York...
Because of the lack of diplomatic relations with Washington, Turkey was, of course, well within the boundaries of diplomatic etiquette in refusing officially to lower her flag. Although the matter is of no importance, a less rigorous observance in this matter would have left a pleasanter impression and cost nothing...
...Prominent in the Rotary Club of Literary New York Alexander Woollcott has added a species of small tippet to his facial equipment. What does one call such a beard when it rests on the under reaches of the lower lip? At any rate, the dramatic critic of The New York Herald, after illness, a trip abroad and a sojourn in Vermont, has acquired a new beard with which to astonish early first night audiences in New York City...
Infantile paralysis is an infectious disease which attacks certain portions of the gray matter of the spinal cord, usually in children, inhibiting the motor action of the lower limbs. Comparatively little is known about it, although it has been the subject of exhaustive study since the great epidemic of 1916. Theories that it is spread by invisible discharges from the respiratory passages have not as yet been confirmed...
...years afterwards wore his red shirt under his cassock. In 1915, when Italy entered the World War, he organized priests for duty as army chaplains in the mountains of the Trentino, where they carved altars out of snow and said mass in a temperature lower than zero...