Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets are dusty, with incredibly deep thank-you-ma'ams. A monster billboard warns transients to obey the laws of Zion or begone...
...sunburned girl in a bathing suit, her ankles ringletted with bells, danced in a Manhattan ballroom last week a dance that few white men had ever seen before. To a slow orchestral accompaniment she pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer...
...kind of night that makes men love the sea, but soon the lookout heard something that made him glad he was on a ship. Coming closer, droning deep amid the seethe and hiss of the waves, he heard an airplane's motor. Then he saw an airplane, flying low to the waves. It was headed east-toward Europe...
...women scanned twelve photographs given them by Dr. Richard S. Uhrbrock, assistant professor of Rural Education, lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid eyes. Surely, said most of the examiners...
...scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...