Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excerpt: O I'm gonna swing it low, swing it low, I'm gonna swing that golden chariot, swing it low, O swing...
...Syncopation. At last week's convention Stamps-Baxter was much in evidence. One of its quartets, in blue suits and red ties, brought down the house with four new Stamps-Baxter songs: I'm Having a Good Time Here, Dreaming, with a falsetto blues-style solo, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, with new words and music,* and Far Above the Starry Sky. Delegates cheered the quartet's close harmony and syncopation, bought 500 copies of their songbooks and records...
...everyday problems. Last week, while Buenos Aires was agog at the size of the visiting Phillips Oilers basketball team (Center Bob Kurland is 7-ft. tall), Don Sensato had this to say: "It occurs to me that the only way to win from .. . the tall ones ... is to play low...
...Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith project for Hamm, Luxembourg, which provided for an ungadgeted chapel and a well planned area for memorial services. The monument that Holabird, Root & Burgee had designed for Henri Chapelle, Belgium was more dramatic, but its forbidding stone facade with 14 rectangular columns was low as death's door and suggested little beyond the threshold...
After lending Henry Kaiser $34.4 million only a month ago, the RFC last week opened its cash drawer and plunked out another $10 million to its great & good friend. The earlier loan was to help Kaiser-Frazer bring out a low-priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...