Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four made a score of 20, the average for the four was a grade of 67, which would mean that the other three made an average of 83. So you see 9,000 Colorado schoolteachers were being judged as to their knowledge of history on the basis of a low score by one teacher...
Quentin Styles will be plunking from one of the guard slots with his distinctive fast, low, long shot. His fast, deceptive passing should prove invaluable in breaking the opponent's defense. Tricky Fred Wegner from Southbend, Indiana, will fill the other guard position. Except for Pankey he is the fastest and most ubiquitous man on the team...
...warhorses--apathy, procrastination, plain indifference--can be trotted out to explain the pitifully low returns. And the new rationalizations--late veterans checks, post-Yale poverty, plain forgetfulness--can very easily be used to explain away neglect of pledges. Five thousand dollars worth of these pledges are still unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door...
Czech In. The first postwar Tatra (Czechoslovak) automobile to reach the U.S. went on display in Manhattan. Low-slung, and fitted with a sliding sedan top, the Tatra has its air-cooled engine in the rear and a cyclops-eye headlight in addition to the usual two in front. Czechoslovakia's nationalized auto industry is producing the car at the rate of 3,000 a year, promises delivery in six weeks. Price: $6,200, plus...
Next to blondes, gentlemen prefer poker. Blackjack, learnedly classified as "vingt-et-un," is a low born associate of spinning ivories on khaki blankets, and is favored only by those majoring in R.O.T.C. The advent of General Education has definitely entrenched the five card classic, with numerous aberrations localized somewhat to the bank of the Charles...