Word: low
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect the cost of government to increase. The "low" of 1925-26 ($3,105,517,645) may be a "low" for all time hereafter...
When Nick F. wiggled off, the New York Times, whose city editor would not know about a race-track gambler, ran a confused story which spoke of Nick F. as "Nick the Greek." Nick the Greek (Nicholas Dandolas) is a gambler too but he seldom plays the horses. Craps, low ball, stud poker and faro are his specialties. Jack Dempsey's friend, he lost a hundred grand on the first Dempsey-Tunney fight. At last reports, Nick the Greek was alive and broke in Los Angeles...
Lonely and bleak is the Scottish castle of Achmacarry. Trout leap warily in its streams. Startled grouse fill its woods with low thunder. Bold would he be of heart, who went alone to Castle Achmacarry, as the enemy of its famed tenant, Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of Royal Dutch Shell...
Experience has taught the U. S. Post Office Dept. that the public uses about 3,200,000,000 stamped envelopes each year. Accordingly, finding its supply low, it advertised last month for bids to supply envelopes over a period of four years, in the amount...
Unusual attention met the appeal of the Post Office Dept. For the first time in 58 years, more than two companies submitted bids. And when the three offers were examined, last week, Postmaster General New found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world...