Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...voting was over Chairman Hawley cast up his winnings and his losings. He had triumphed on only three points while his low-tariff adversaries had trounced him badly on five others. By and large the House had turned against his super-protectionist proposals, had sided with the Senate for lower rates. Hawley winnings...
...bound to be a long, acrimonious booming of political big guns, the Finance Minister mildly said: "This budget is frankly framed to enable us to buy more freely from those countries which buy from us most freely. . . . I speak in no spirit of retaliation. I would much rather extend lower tariff favors to those who extend them...
Roberta, 18, daughter of Soul Saver Aimee Semple McPherson, sailing with her mother from Palestine to Constantinople, fell from the upper to the lower deck of the boat, suffering severe injury. Her condition prevented Savior McPherson from accompanying her flock to Oberammergau, Germany...
...ability to learn. He told how he had stood beside his small aquarium, blown a whistle, scattered food to the minnows. Soon, he said, they learned what the whistle meant, would rush to the top with gaping mouths whenever it was blown. Later he procured another whistle of lower tone. He would blow this, then spank the rising fish with a glass rod. Soon they learned the meaning of the new whistle, would cower at bottom when it was blown, but still come gaping to the surface when the food whistle blew...
...Paso, he settled down on the desert beside a truck. "Two prospectors were in it. They treated me royally, shared their food and water with me. . . . In taking off next morning along a narrow road lined by telegraph poles, I had a cross wind and just clipped the lower left wing tip, but I got into the air safely...