Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prerogative, the King shares ownership of Thames swans between Southwark Bridge and Henley with two City companies - the Worshipful Companies of Dyers and Vintners. Each July, in ceremonies known as "swan-upping," swan markers round up the flocks and allocate the young cygnets. One nick is made in the lower bill to mark a Dyers' swan, two for a Vintners'; His Majesty's go nickless...
Earnest Socialist. To reach this eminence, Strunsky had to master a language not his own. The Strunskys came to New York's lower East Side from Vitebsk, Russia, when Simeon was seven. At 17, Strunsky won a scholarship to Columbia University, made Phi Beta Kappa, was an earnest Socialist...
...student from blame for his part in the daily dodge 'cm game. Cheerfully assuming that safety grows with numbers rather than with discretion, the Yard-bound crowds forget about cars in the hope that cars will forget about them. Taking the cue from any leader who happens along, they lower their heads, and plow blindly ahead, looking up only when their soles scrape the far curb. At the opposite extreme from the Cautious Upperclassman, the heedless flying wedge dares any motorist to watch out, with the result that a few fenders barely miss indentation. And every so often, of course...
...North Carolina's coast. The wind blew sand into the eyes of Wilbur and Orville Wright as they moved their awkward flying machine out of its shed at Kitty Hawk. Orville, a short, neat man with a heavy mustache, stretched himself flat on his stomach on the lower wing, between the two chain-driven propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily into the air. For twelve seconds it lurched slowly forward like an uncertain box kite, dipping...
Pleased. Beth Steel's Eugene Grace was pleased. But he was also worried. He knew as well as anyone that fat profits would heat up labor's demands for another round of wage boosts. It is better to cut prices, Grace said: "Lower prices would be beneficial to industry and the country as a whole." But Steelman Grace said nothing about cutting his prices, and neither did any other leaders of his industry...