Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picking up a sheaf of reports, Signor Mussolini then quietly settled down to quote evidence that Teutons are not being oppressed in the former Lower Tyrol, now called by Italians the Higher Adige. Declaring that 15 German language newspapers are still printed in the Higher Adige, Il Duce asked rhetorically: "Is this Fascist barbarity...
From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, governor of Massachusetts: "Business, as such, desires that the lower schools should help the boy to understand his obligations to the social, civic and economic community . . . as the English would put it, to 'play the game...
Joseph M. Gwinn of San Francisco found time to tell Boston Rotarians: "The universal effort in education is to change that which is lower into that which is higher and that which is less useful into that which is more useful. . . . Rotary has helped to break down the barriers that separate business and professional men and those between countries...
American Smelting & Refining Co. (Onetime [1907-13] Senator Simon Guggenheim is president)-$15,477,770. Previous year: $17,760,721. "The showing of earnings is quite satisfactory, in view of the fact that metal prices were lower in 1927 than in 1926, and your company is now a substantial miner of lead, zinc, copper and silver," soothed President Guggenheim...