Word: low
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Low Bacon is the leading Republican hostess, a tall, tweedy woman with an air of conscious aristocracy who, in the nervous summer of 1948, was heiress presumptive to Mrs. Mesta's crown. At her small, select salon in the John Marshall house there is no foolishness about fun or songs. Each table is assigned a topic of conversation and their hostess sees that her guests stick...
Nagasaki is surprisingly full of smiles and surprisingly empty of hate. The A-bomb epicenter is a small park of less than an acre around a low, earthen mound topped by a plain wooden shaft. Seven young arborvitae trees circle the mound. A sign in English and Japanese states that 18,409 homes were destroyed, 29,739 people killed and 91,081 injured when a compact mass of plutonium "exploded in the air just above here...
...smashed a bottle of champagne against the Clipper America. Pan Am, which expects to put the clipper into service within a few weeks, hopes to get 19 more of the double-decked, 75-passenger monsters by late summer. With them, said Trippe, he will have "sufficient equipment to provide low-cost tourist-class service to Europe and to the Orient." Foreign governments willing, Trippe would cut transatlantic tourist rates to $225 one way and $405 round trip (present cost...
Badgley stated that architecture is no longer a "gentleman's plaything" but now serves as a necessary part of society. "With one-third of the nation ill-housed the three most urgent needs are for well-planned urban apartments, flexible prefabricated technological dwellings, and low cost architects...
...regrets were felt over the loss of the rickety gray building with the low ceiling and the one cold water spigot that had previously passed for a gymnasium. "Chemical laboratory bottles upstairs juggled dangerously when anything more violent than Swedish movements was done," a reminiscence in the 1900 Yearbook reads. One member of the class of 1897 donated a large tin tub from home for the girls to bathe in after exercising...