Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...
...crash of the T. A. T. liner on Mt. Taylor in New Mexico resulted in recommendation that the course be changed; the January crash of the T. A. T.-Maddux liner between San Diego and Los Angeles resulted in a rule requiring air transport pilots to land if forced lower than 500 feet (TIME...
...because elimination on those grounds perfects the label on the finished product, but also because the larger the number of students the larger is the teaching staff and equipment required. There is only a limited amount of first rate teaching; an indefinite increase in the student body must therefore lower the standard of scholarship...
Thus Britain began accepting half the Hoover-Stimson plan (shifts from a higher to a lower category), but were mum about the other half (shifts from low to high...
...college is tending to decrease." Dr. Robhinson declared. "For instance, in the class entering in February, 1929, there were 43 Freshmen under 16: In September, 1929, there were 121. Although statistics are not complete for this term, the director of the personnel bureau believes that it will be lower than a year ago. This average is lower than in most colleges and we attribute it to the fact that our severe entrance requirements exclude students of lower mentality. It is true that as a group the men who complete high school at an early age are intellectually superior "to students...