Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
There is no real majority in the Andra Kammaren (Lower House) at Stockholm, any more than there is one in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris. But Swedes are naturally less prone to sudden topplings down of Governments than Frenchmen. The previous Cabinet (Conservative) of Admiral Arvid Lindman, who was forced out fortnight ago (TIME, June 9), had remained in office for 20 months although out of 230 deputies in the Andra Kammaren only 73 are Conservative...
...escape which Fag Fairhurst had killed himself, one witness explained: "Each new boy is expected to do 20 'fags' or acts of service, a week. Each new boy is asked to do these 'fags' for a prefect who in some cases is in a lower form. The 'fags' are expected to run at the call of a prefect, and the first arrival receives a mark and the others receive no marks. Each boy runs 50 times and is expected to make 20 marks a week. If he has not gained these marks...
...intended in the foregoing. Reference merely was made to the great rush of American students for the ports of Europe which has not only lead to an overwhelming increase in the business done by the photographic board of the CRIMSON but has resulted in the conversion of lower decks of passenger liners into low rate Atlantic accomodations...
...expressed by Mr. Doubleday in his announcement is to bring book production into line with other manufacture, to sell more books at the lower price, to provide established booksellers with competitive merchandise in the current war between them and the drug-and cigar-store book counters. Authors will be paid royalty at the same rate, not at the same amount per book. Wherefore, an author will profit no more from the sale of 10,000 books next fall than he did from the sale of 5,000 last spring...