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Word: low (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...prices sagged to a new low of $11 in Midwestern markets last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: The Fourth Dimension | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Farm Policy: In Minneapolis, Rockefeller became the first presidential hopeful in either party to take firm hold of the sharp-thorned fact that in the U.S. today too many people are trying to make a living as farmers. To help low-income farm families escape into other livelihoods, and at the same time to ease the problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rocky & the Issues | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...sister's flat by curfew. The two killers were waiting for them in the shadow of a nearby clump of evergreens. As Touhy and Miller went up the steps of Ethel Alesia's porch, the gunmen stepped to the walk behind them, fired low with six blasts of 12-gauge, 00 buckshot pellets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death on the Steps | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...maid of high or low degree Was safe from his unbridled lechery. Within his house, upon his maids And servants' wives he preyed. Until he fell into the error Of thinking that his mortal shell would last forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...course, virtuous Moon Lady is restored to her riches and reunited with her son. But as the author probably intended, what the reader remembers is more likely to be the song of the low-living and unrepentant beggar Ying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wind & Moon Play | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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