Word: low
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum limit of $1.75 per $100 on the realty tax (still very low by comparison with other cities...
...down the river bringing vegetables and fruit to the Concessions, feared to come near. Two Chinese vegetable vendors who did were shot. The Concession still had large stores of flour and rice, but perishables were almost gone. Milk had disappeared by week's end; the ice supply was low, and it was 100° in the shade. Even in the French Concession, where vegetables were still obtainable, prices tripled...
...Five Came Back was 35-year-old John Villiers Farrow, an Australian-born seaman-author-director and soldier of fortune who jumped a ship in Honolulu, worked his way to Hollywood in 1927, has been a cinemauthor and director there, as well as in France and Austria. As a low-budget director at Warner Bros, he fired no worlds, this year tried his luck...
...Crocker turned down St. Paul's, as he had turned down nominations for the Episcopal bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week he got an invitation he did not refuse. With the obvious approval of retiring Headmaster Peabody, Groton elected High Churchman Jack Crocker to succeed Low Churchman Dr. Peabody...
...boatload seems to have one important handicap. They have in the past found it hard to turn on the power with a low stroke. In their nip-and-tuck race with Cornell they were unable to lower the beat to a thirty-four...