Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woods of the Literary Digest, compared the predicted ratios of Davis and Coolidge votes in 1924 with actual ratios. In 22 states, the Literary Digest's figures predicting what percentage of the Coolidge vote the Davis vote would be, put the Davis vote from 10% to 48% too low. Had the 1924 election not been a Coolidge landslide, contended Critic Franklin, these gross errors in popular vote would have been reflected in the electoral result...
...great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows...
...Stadium tradition are rounded out in this afternoon's Dartmouth gridiron appearance. Athletics were a casual pastime when the men from Hanover first came to Cambridge; it was that long ago. And yet, such is the effect of partial anti-climax, popular and newspaper hysteria are at an ultimate low ebb. Cadets and campaigners, Dempseys and dirigibles have harrowed the public. For the only time in recent memory, there is a possibility that the fifty few thousand who attend the game will be composed of those who actually are interested in the jarring combat of two powerful elevens...
Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Mass., is surrounded by a dreary, dilapidated stadium; from factory chimneys near it long pennants of smoke twist in the wind and mark the low sky. Into the stadium last week there drifted a drooling drizzle and a cold, odorous draught. North Carolina, accustomed to warm blue afternoons, grew as stiff as a dying hare. Harvard backs called Gilligan and French fooled Carolina ends called Sapp and Presson so well that Harvard won 20-0. --Time...
...experiment, he faces totally different problems, different programs. He plans to buy "a few selected mills" (at the present extraordinarily low rates) to turn out unfinished cloth. He will add finishing plants to bleach, dye and print the cotton, then sell the product himself through his own converters, including Cohn-Hall-Marx. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc.* will then control the entire textile process, from the purchase of raw materials to the sale of curtains and draperies...