Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is therefore a farm surplus available for sale in competition with foreign-produced comestibles. Hence its price-value (which like water seeks a level) is in part determined by foreign price-values, and foreign price-values are relatively low...
...Virgin Man", and "The Captive" have been found just too low-down for the New York Police Department to countenance. Managers of all three plays violently protest their innocence, and rejoice. Padlocking is better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag...
...skin offers the chief resistance to electric current. If the skin were broken, one might be electrocuted on 25 or 50 volts, on currents as low as one ampere...
...seldom we are called upon to record such an act of cruelty and low-lived blood thirstiness as was enacted by a party of students last Sunday afternoon. About 15 of them repaired to a retired spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them two bags, each bag containing a cat and they were followed by a bulldog. A circle was formed, a cat was then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment...
...squad of squaw men fled over the border into the greed Canadian territory. Customer's men couldn't follow them, and although we didn't hanker for their presence we had to put up with it. I talked with Sitting Bull in conferences an found him to be a low and wily chief who was at sea, because of the American massacre...