Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to make the speech sound "realistic," a style which crushes the beautiful verse of such speeches as "The barge she sat in ..." Ralph Crinton as Oetavius is excessively noisy--perhaps more insistent than calculating. Lenore Ulrie's Charmian, complete with New York accent and undulating movements, is the low point of the performance...
Much of the world's best land has been so badly treated that its productivity is falling steadily. Osborn retells the familiar tale of "soil-mining," deforestation and erosion all over the world. As people grow more numerous, the soil they depend on grows poorer & poorer. The low point has almost been reached in the Near East, where man-made deserts occupy large areas that were once fertile and populous. Like most conservationists, Osborn is something of an alarmist. He tends to underestimate the ability of modern agricultural science to revive maltreated soil, make deserts productive by irrigation...
Even by the extremely low standards of the hotel and club industry, the working conditions provided by the recently expired contract are considerably below...
...Cambridge to march in support of the strike. Because of this I have refused to become associated personally with the proposed demonstrations; but it does not seem to me that the issues of the strike are in any way political. The wages paid at the Harvard Club are shamefully low; the strikers' case is eloquent. Martin P. Mayer...
...order to help those who cannot afford. Because of the diversity of the groups involved and the position of the administration, a college-wide poll is probably the only accurate method of determining the support which reinstatement of the prewar system would receive. Since the average is as low as 16 meals per week, however, the poll would undoubtedly show a substantial majority in favor of the old arrangement...