Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning-Feb. 13-I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied...
...movement in French art and decoration. Following his tilt in the Chamber over oil, last week (see col. 1), he took unto himself a pen and signed a new trade treaty with Italy, made necessary by the recent French tariff increases (TIME, March 12). France concedes to Italy lower duties on buttons, canned tomatoes, fruits, ventilators and women's hats, etc.; while Italy grants reductions on rabbit skins, precious stones, carpets, cheese...
Three meanings of the adjective sucio are dirty, filthy, obscene. Long ago, the natives of Salvador stigmatized one of their rivers by naming it the Rio Sucio. Last week the lower reaches of this stream near Quezaltepeque were choked with dead, floating, stinking fish. There had been, guessed geologists, a minor earthquake near the remote headwaters of El Rio Sucio...
...student for such information, one finds a certain refreshing willingness to learn all too frequently lacking in teachers. Whether or not the instructor can learn something in this way is still an open question, if one may judge from the "Suggestion Book of History I" on the Lower Reading Room. Students dislike outside reading. They object to finding New Lecture Hall locked too early. They are disturbed at being conspicuous targets for an angry "Sit down!" They prefer cheerful attendants to scowling ones...
...Maxim Gorky," famed author of The Lower Depths, whose real name is Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov, was informed last week that his likeness will shortly appear on a Soviet postage stamp...