Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south of the Arctic Circle, and its temperature rarely drops lower than 40° below zero F., it is an ideal spot for pitting men and machines against the cold. Located where the tree line meets Hudson Bay, it offers both timberland and tundra. And what it lacks in low temperatures is more than made up by its high winds...
...Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern California before the white man arrived...
...grand finale, a life & death chase staged in a War Surplus warehouse, is full of the ingenious low-comedy ideas which practically nobody seems to be able to think up these days. The desperate obstacle race takes place among instantly inflating life rafts, stockpiles of prefabricated barracks, bouncy camouflage nets, a regular holocaust of naval flares. It's good, fast, noisy fun; but the good comic ideas are never really milked of their possibilities as they used to be by Chaplin and Keaton and Lloyd...
Despite reports from some students that they had seen him putting bills under doors, by last night no one had admitted receiving any money. However, one Square bank, which had announced Saturday that balances in students' accounts had fallen dangerously low, noted an unusually large number of two-dollar deposits yesterday...
Around them was a great, illiterate, hot-tempered, lazy group of poor whites-in De Forest's district they were called "the low-down people"-the descendants of farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent...