Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief objections to the application of this theory are two. One is that it violates the purpose of the university to educate as many people as it is possible without making the standards ridiculously low. By the theory of Dean McConn, a few would acquire a great amount of erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence...
...ideal rediscount rate is a rate that is high enough to discourage speculative borrowing and low enough to encourage industrial borrowing. The determination of such a rate is obviously a delicate matter involving many considerations other than bulls and bears alone. The New York rediscount rate has, however, been raised three times in the last year (though without any withering effect on the market), t was not raised following the Reserve Board's proclamation of last week...
Fairchild Cabin-plane-5-seat cabin monoplane; folding wings braced by steel V tubes on each side; radial motor, low-placed, affording view through sloping windscreen from glass-enclosed deep cabin; fuselage full; rudder, stabilizers large and curving...
Ford-3-engined 10-12 seater cabin monoplane; high wing, all metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...
...petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing." Came Khovantchina, The Fair at Sorotchintzy, The Marriage, miscellaneous cho ruses, compositions for piano, for orchestra. The artist grew but the man lost money, friends, reputation. When at 42, he died, it was alone, in a hospital, of delirium tremens. Then was he first...