Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebuttal of your reader who would have you reduce the subscription price of TIME to $2.00, Your paper is worth $5.00. One big cause of the prostitution of journalism in America is the low subscription price demanded. If we paid lOc to 25? a day for information and opinion which we could trust, we would be glad to pay it. Two-cent-a-day information and opinion is as a rule not worth the two cents. Keep up your quality and add on the tariff...
...evenly-matched teams struggled up and down the field, with neither able to pierce beyond the other's 30-yard line. Near the close of the second quarter, Coach Knox's men worked the pigskin to the Freshman 30-yard streak, and Winston tried a drop-kick that went low, was blocked by Stewart and recovered by Douglas. This was the only occasion on which either outfit penetrated far into its opponents' teritory. For the most part, the play was beween the 40-yard marks, with the defensive work of both teams stifling any offensive...
...electro-physicists this title was a great deal more significant than it would have sounded to laymen. It meant that Dr. Coolidge-the man who, besides his X-ray work, first learned to make brittle tungsten ductile and so suitable for electric light bulbs ("Mazda") of low price and long life-that this man of results had been exploring a field discovered 50 years ago by Sir William Crookes of England and only faintly understood ever since...
...less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to the zenith, a bright disc 76 times smaller (optically) than Earth's full moon, giving U. S. astronomers a far better view than they had in 1924, when Mars hung low on the horizon. Being the only planet near enough for men to study with their telescopes, Mars has for centuries excited speculation as to whether or not it is inhabited, speculation which had lately given way to the practical certainty that it has no animal life but may have vegetation...
...Wednesday the dashes, the high and low hurdles, the javelin throw, and the discus throw will take place, beginning about 2.30 o'clock...