Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further feeling among certain Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, that she places a low rank upon things of the mind, that her outlook is immature and provincial, that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...Norfolk to practice for the Schneider Cup races. Next morning, his body was found strapped to the seat of the wrecked plane; his hand was clutching the control levers; his parachute was untouched. Naval officers, viewing the disaster, said that he must have been flying low, about 160 miles per hour, when one of the pontoons of his airplane hit a fish net stake...
Heihachiro Togo, Admiral of the Fleet, spoke with low purring earnestness. When he fell silent his captains filed past the lacquer tray one by one. Their eyes met firmly the piercing glance of Togo...
...Stevenson Plan went into effect in Malay States, Straits Settlement and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919. Rubber had sold as low as 11½c a pound in 1921, well below production costs. The Plan immediately restricted output to 60% of tree capacity. Every three months restrictions were to be tightened or relaxed according to prices at the London rubber market. Thus production went down to 50% Nov., 1924, through Jan., 1925. Last February all restrictions were lifted. Rubber prices were amply high...
rubber Further, trees it takes (Hevea) to five yield years latex. for Some experiments with low-yield rubber shrubs in the Southwest and Mexico are in progress. U. S. Rubber Co. has its own plantations in Oceana. Firestone Rubber Co. is trying to develop Liberian jungles. It has made little progress there so far. In their predicament U. S. rub ber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief: 1) reclaimed rubber, 2) synthetic rubber, 3) factice, 4) mineral rubber, and 5) more economical meth ods of manufacture. Improved Manufacture. Last week a company was formed, the American Anode...