Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...
...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
Danes elected to their Folkething (Lower House) last week 30 Conservatives, 46 Liberals, 53 Socialists and 16 Radicals. Since the Right (Conservative-Liberal) phalanx of 76 thus outnumbered the Left (Socialist-Radical) 69, Premier T. A. M. ("Tam") Stauning (Socialist) promptly resigned...
...contended that such a scheme was in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, and that a decision upholding it would destroy the force of the law in all cases involving patents. Chief Justice William Howard Taft wrote the decision which upheld the action of a lower Federal court in Ohio...
...black, and seemed to me more substantial food than the ordinary trout. They vary in length; our guide said he had seen one 28 inches long, but our party had to be satisfied with six or seven inches, although they saw many big ones. At our last camp on lower Rock Creek the guide caught his limit (twenty fish) and gave them to us to take back to Pasadena. He cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll of pedding which we were not to open until the fish...