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Word: low (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Ehret had kindly little eyes and a wedge-shaped bald head, spreading out at the neck. His stiff collars, always too big for him, were immense, low and broad; he tucked the ends of his black bow tie up under the flaps of his collar. His figure was square, his legs a little bowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ehret | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Sweet and low, then soaring. What but "Jenny Lind"?the little swede that Barnum made "The Swedish Nightingale." Ah, ah. . . co-lor-a-tur-AH?very nice. The audience stood up and cheered while young Composer Moore bowed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Rhapsody | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...believe he was really going. It was almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finis | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...business turn for the textile companies may be at hand. U. S. cotton is priced exceedingly low and people in the U. S. are buying more and more domestic-made cotton goods, importing less; and the movement to use coarse-woven cotton bagging, instead of imported jute, has started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Textiles | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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