Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mostly Mud. It was not much of a capital. Karachi was a little trading village until the British seized it in 1843. Shortly thereafter, Scholar-Adventurer Richard Burton described it in Scinde or the Unhappy Village as a "mass of low mud hovels and tall mud houses with flat mud roofs, windowless mud walls, and numerous mud ventilators, surrounded by a tumbledown parapet of mud, built upon a platform of mud-covered rock...
...best defense against U.S. dollar depletion. So long as Canadians generally believe that they can get U.S. dollars for business or travel, they are not likely to start a run on the Dominion's depleted supply. But if they should decide that the stock was dangerously low, they could start a run by stepping up their orders of U.S. goods, and getting U.S. dollars from Canadian banks to pay the bills. Ottawa's view is that with a half-billion loan in the kitty, Canadian businessmen would not start the run, and little of the loan would have...
...Britain's first pile, at Harwell near Oxford, began operation last week. Officially it is a "gleep" (graphite low energy experimental pile...
...teaching of these courses, the editorial continued, "seasoned politicians and such low characters as newspapermen, press agents, and even Tammany district leaders should play a prominent part...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...