Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...
PORGY-The last week of the Theatre Guild's spectacular play about low, black fishermen who live along the stormy wharves of Charleston (TIME...
...competition in the salt mining industry. Saltman Fuller saw net earnings fall from $507,339 in 1926 to $327,000 in 1927, to only $3,108 for the first six months of 1928. On the stock exchange, International Salt dropped from a high of 92 in 1923 to a low of 54⅛ in 1928. Lessened demand, competitive price cutting, are among apparent causes of depression...
Duty whispered low, "Thou must," and Calvin Coolidge got ready to leave Wisconsin. Callers of note became more plentiful at the Summer White House...
...University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able to eat big bowls of soup and a caribou steak...