Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduate body remained relatively untouched. Gold Coast cleaners reported a low percentage of lipstick stains from the business school. "I guess the boys know how to take care of themselves by that time," the owner said...
...Friday, Eliot will meet Yale's Davenport College in the top contest of the inter-college meetings. Davenport, like Eliot, works its attack from a T formation but has turned in low scores all year...
When a fan heckled him as he skated close to the boards, Kenny unhesitatingly conked him on the head with a hockey stick. As the blood streamed, another spectator jumped onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...
...Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to University of California Professor William F. Giauque -pronounced Gee-oke-for his studies in the behavior of matter at very low temperatures...
...contract to renovate the White House, at a cost of $4,160,000 plus a fixed fee, McShain was the winner again. The highest bid was a fixed fee of $950,000; the lowest, $100,000, was McShain's. Said McShain: "I figured nobody would go as low as that, so I bid it. I may not make a nickel on it, but I've done so much work in Washington, I just thought I'd like to add the White House...