Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...realize that every week, almost every day, some Russian church is being turned into a school, day nursery, workers' dormitory, theatre, factory or a granary-as in the case of the once glorious House of God at Petrovsky, now rapidly filling with grain which will obliterate its lower tier of angels and finally its higher tier of adoring saints...
...became president of the Omege, the Agricultural Society of Hungary. Later he was elected to the Lower Chamber, when he began a vigorous campaign against Count Tisza, leader of the National Work Party, whose policy was to sacrifice the common people to the interests of the Empire and the Hungarian upper caste...
...blame wholly upon individuals, when the sweeping generality of the complaint is in itself proof that the fault lies rather with the institution. Obviously, men are being sent from the Law School out into the legal world with no knowledge of the truly important functions of the lower courts and a consequent lack of respect for the Bench...
...averred that Harvard Law graduates were inclined to look down upon justices of the lower courts and treat them with "arrogance". "These young fellows come into court with cases which no one else in the big firms they represent wants to handle", said Justice Caffrey, "and have an idea they can lord it over the justices and court attendants. Then, if they receive a rebuke from the court for their manners or procedure, they report their grievances to the heads of their influential firms, who take the matter up with various judicial and political committees, and the justice...
...BOTTOM-Excellent revival of Gorki's philosophic Russian ne'er-do-wells (usually called The Lower Depths...