Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
Curve Down. The latest figures showed a definite reversal of the rising curve of cancer deaths (though not of the number of cancer sufferers) among U.S. white men & women. Last year, reported the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the cancer death rate among its women policyholders dropped to a new low-78.9 per 100,000 (v. 90 per 100,000 a decade ago). In the past five years, the male death rate had also fallen slightly (from 86.8 to 85 per 100,000). Chief reasons for the reduced death rate: early diagnosis and treatment by surgery. The biggest drop...
...Radiators. Like birds, bats are streamlined, with their testes inside their bodies. When inactive, their temperature may fall very low, but when they fly, as they do every night to gather food, they are as hot as birds. How do their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they...
...peak of the vacation season, Greyhound, which intends to replace one-third of its fleet, will have hundreds of the new buses on its main lines. To help keep them filled, it has laid out some 200 low-cost tours around the U.S. Example: a six-day tour from Chicago to Washington provides five nights in hotels, sightseeing trips to public buildings in the capital, Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, etc. Total cost (excluding meals...
...yard low hurdles...