Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Studies at Harvard are far stiffer, and grades much lower, than at Washington. If one drew down a straight B at Washington, and, upon coming to Harvard were to work as hard here, he would be most lucky to get a straight...
...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
Commented President Francis R. Henderson of the New York Rubber Exchange: "Baldwin has made a bold move. But in my opinion he has made a move that will, in the long run, be a good thing for the industry as a whole. Lower prices for rubber will encourage its increased use, and increasing consumption will take care of the entire output of the Far East...
...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
...lower animals rarely indulge in this form of biological sport, with the exception of the Texas armadillo* which reproduces regularly in this way. It bears four young of the same sex, having a common set of embryonic membranes, strikingly similar in general configuration, all coming from a single egg. Thus they parallel as quadruplets the conditions of human identical twins. Exactly what causes the egg to divide is not definitely known. Dr. Horatio H. Newman, zoologist at the University of Chicago, has patiently pursued simpler species in the hope of finding a clue. After sacrificing several starfish he has shown...