Word: lowering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That the average age of applicants for admission to Harvard College is becoming lower as well as the age of the candidates actually admitted was made known yesterday at University Hall. The average age of men admitted under the old plan, 18.47, is lower than that of those refused admission. 18.70, Candidates of the latter plan who are refused admission, however, are generally younger than old men who fail. Those admitted on the highest seventh plan are considerably younger than either of the other classes, with an average age of 17.72 as compared with 18.46 for the old plan...
Duke Borea d'Olmo, detecting this mistake, verbally advised correspondents that the marriage would take place in the lower end Church of St. Francis. He then discovered that this church is dedicated to the dead, hastily transferred the ceremony to the upper end Church of St. Francis, dedicated to the living...
...Navy's ill-fated dirigible Shenandoah (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), built his "air yacht" to be produced commercially "for family use." Its initial cost was $19,000, but the prospective purchase price, the designer said, would be "far below $10,000," the operating cost-per-mile lower than that of an automobile...
...went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural channel" across the flat south and lower southwest, have formed the bases for charted airways...
...Clevelanders were not worried by this storm. In fact, knowing Clevelanders chuckled. Astute in many ways are the Van Sweringens. They knew their pyramid had been built quickly, they knew certain bond clauses which demand put up more securities under certain involving lower prices would attract Bears. Long before the gathered they had lined up potent On the actual day of the selling Brother Mantis James was duck-hunting and Brother Oris Paxton was in before the New England governors' railroad committee, urging that the hold over New York, New Haven & Hartford be broken. As expected the storm subsided...