Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this the Butte mines have to contend with fires which have burned for many years in worked-out regions, one continuously since 1889. These fires feed on timber and combustible sulphides, and burning laterally and vertically, have so heated the adjacent rock and air as to render the lower veins untenable for human beings...
...stock market in New York, created after the Revolutionary War to deal primarily in U. S. Government bonds, consisted originally of a dozen or more brokers, who used to gather under an old buttonwood tree then standing in lower Wall Street. In 1817 the more substantial of these brokers organized an association known as " The New York Stock and Exchange Board," and hired a second-story room in Wall Street. In the course of the following century this organization shortened its name to " New York Stock Exchange," expanded its membership to 1,100, built a splendid marble building for itself...
...them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence. His father, the chief of the tribe, consented to his son's death. When the case was tried in the government courts the tribesmen produced the rain goddess incarnated in a beautiful girl. She did not lower her dignity by speaking to mortals, and her henchmen were convicted...
...Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals to descend to the point of even considering worldly political differences!' " Governor General...
...stagecraft-should furnish you with several delightful evenings, even if you understand as little French as most New York theatrical critics do Russian. The Guitrys whatever they are acting in, individually or collectively, are worth observation. The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion and others, are almost always interesting...