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Word: low (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today they try again, providing the temperature is low enough, and tomorrow they will definitely play the Brown freshman at the Arena. This week's schedule also lists Saturday game at Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Hockey Game Postponed | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...With low-hanging stratus (i.e., solid layer) clouds, Project Cirrus was just as successful. Langmuir told how the planes had drawn Greek letters and "racetrack" patterns in stratus clouds by dropping small amounts of dry ice (see cut). Sometimes the cloud was dissipated so completely that blue sky showed through the gaps. Langmuir believes that dry ice can be used to clear clouds from over airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wringing Out the Clouds | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...path of two-way trade with Europe, which ECA hopes to smooth, was still rocky. When Cleveland's Municipal Light Plant opened bids last week for two new turbogenerators, Switzerland's Brown Boveri & Co., Ltd. was low by $500,000, Nevertheless, some city officials wanted to give the contract to a U.S. firm; they said they felt that replacement parts might be hard to get in event of war. Brown Boveri promptly pointed out that it could retaliate: it had bought more than $2,000,000 worth of U.S. equipment in the last ten months-more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: No More Middlemen | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

From there on, complications and cliches roll up like thunderheads around a low-pressure area. After some improbable, fast moving action, including a running gunfight through a Central American fiesta, Taylor gets his three men, as well as Ava, and salvages a little tarnished honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...relationship with the ducal house of Brittany. Little Arthur spent many of his juvenile hours memorizing the family coats-of-arms, while his plucky mama briskly scrubbed the floor and called out knightly maxims: "Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak!" "Chivalry towards all women, of high or low degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prefabrication of Holmes | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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