Word: loweringly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Prices will be 25 to 35 percent lower in the spring because retail prices, blocking the downward trend at present, will have to break then...
...first crews were put on the water at once while the others worked on the machines. As soon as an idea about the relative work of the inexperienced men could be gained, all the lower crews were graded. This year's system contained an innovation in that all men were started on fixed seats and kept there until they showed the necessary proficiency to use the slides...
...week of October 25 there were several races which marked the end of Fall Rowing for the regular class crews and the lower Freshman crews. On Tuesday, the second 1923 crew raced the Technology Sophomore crew over a mile course in the Basin, being beaten by three lengths. On Thursday afternoon, Coach Brown's class crews were raced against each other over the mile course. The first Sophomore crew led the first junior crew by two lengths while the second Sophomore crew defeated the second Junior crew by three-quarters of a length. The time was six minutes and seventeen...
Chandler prepared at St. Mark's School, and entered the University with distinction in the fall of 1917. During less than three years at the College, he received credit for 16 2-3 courses, without receiving a grade lower than B. He is credited with 11 1-2 A's and only 2 1-6 B's. In the remaining three courses, he was excused from a final examination by the instructor, but his previous work was of an A average. He is thus entitled to a total of 14 1-2 A's. Last spring Chandler received his degree...
...there seems to be no satisfactory solution. We feel deeply the lack of raw immigrants every day, when we are forced to pay unheard of wages to the unskilled laborers. Yet in times when we have had immigration, we felt equally keenly how they tended to lower our standards of living. Conditions on the East Side of New York were unbelievable. In 1914, there were more Russian Jews there than in the city of Warsaw, and more Italians than in the largest city in Italy. Immigrants were coming in at the rate of one million a year. The problem...