Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attlee Approach. Attlee had other plans. Already dangerously low imports would be further cut-and that meant even less food and fripperies for austerity-greyed Britons. Not only luxury imports, like films and tobacco, would be reduced to save dollars, but raw material purchases as well. That meant a further danger to British production which alone, in the long run, can get Britain the dollars she needs...
College physician Andrew E. Contratto could advance no scientific explanation last night for the brimming vitality of the University community at this time. Recent low temperatures, he said, probably had nothing to do with...
Stillman infirmary's wards were as quiet as a mausoleum for no ominous reasons last Sunday with only one patient, and only one other moved in yesterday to preserve a record health mark for the University, and the year's all-time illness low...
...cousin of the spider, is no true insect. Ticks and spiders have eight legs; bona fide insects have only six, the legal limit set by science. The tick's extra pair of legs serves him well. When a tick senses an approaching meal, he hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins to suck blood...
...million bu. in two weeks, but still about 500 million bu. below last year's record harvest. But for those who hoped that a better corn crop meant lower meat prices the Department had words of caution: the corn was high in moisture content and low in feed value...