Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...architecture so much can and should be said that this article would not suffice even to begin it. It is of importance, however, to mention that the construction is of mud brick with frequent use of baked brick for pavements, lower hall facings, and water channels...
...Bethune's job is: 1) to convince manufacturers that the U. S. tariff wall is not so high an obstacle to their exports as they think; 2) somehow to secure from them private information on their production costs which the Tariff Commission may use to make the wall lower or higher...
...church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...
...wedding procession was to form inside the upper church, march out the west door and up a grassy hill, then round the corner down through the colonnaded, cobblestoned pilgrim's courtyard to the portal of the lower church. Two hundred young girls of Assisi (practically every available one) were named last week "attendants of the Princess," received white satin dresses donated by her. Soldiers, Fascist militia, torch bearers were told off to line...
Professor Koht is the visiting lecturer from Norway. He is giving a number of courses on Scandinavian history during the first half year. "Russia," he continued, "has been forced to sell her produce, and because they have offered to sell wood, wool, and wheat, at prices lower than standard they have found a ready market, especially in the United States...