Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon the first combination paddled over the full four miles at a very low stroke of about 23 or 24. The crew made the distance without a stop and then turned and rowed back without any let up, finishing at a stroke of 42. There will be no more time trials for any of the crews except the Freshmen, who may be tested over the two mile distance tomorrow...
...Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds $15,000,000 too low a price...
...Epsom Downs the Derby starts at the bottom of what plainsmen would call a hill. With their necks low and their haunches spread the horses climb for half a mile while the crowd at the top of the hill ducks under the fence (it is never policed) and stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front...
...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...