Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present income goes, it doesn't matter much what grades he got at college: the A man averages only $49 a year more than his less scholarly contemporaries (one partial explanation: A students are more apt to enter low-paid occupations such as teaching, science and Government service...
...account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...
...effectively extends his new lease on life as a sympathetic tough guy (Kiss of Death). Coleen Gray, as his high-principled girl friend, is pert and pretty but has very little to do. Reginald Gardiner, one of the villains, suffers very well as a man who has fallen so low that the mere dodging of death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek...
...miracle appeared in Kansas this week, many a farmer became convinced that the Department of Agriculture's recent forecast of 1,192,425,000 bushels (TIME, June 21), second only to last year's record 1,364,919,000 bushels, was sure to prove too low...
...almost completely vibrationless. 3. It weighs only 250 Ibs. 4. It burns low-priced fuel. 5. It utilizes a practical form of atomic energy...