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Word: lowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernie Kelly, the mentor of the diving division, is highly pleased with the way Tom Drohan is working out on both the high and low boards. Another February mystery, this time on the positive side of the ledge, appears in the case of Pete Steffens. The son of the famous journalist is now in Greece, but expects to get back to the Indoor Athletic Building in time for some aquatic action...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...Lionel advertising manager Joseph E. Hanson made a shrewd deal with Liberty. With the fewest ads of any magazine in its class, Liberty had plenty of paper and its rates were low enough to fit Lionel's budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Price of Liberty | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Dark the Night (Columbia) is a low-budget whodunit that almost succeeds in making the big time. In spite of a wobbly script and a cast of unknown players, Director Joseph H. Lewis has turned out a neat little job. It is more entertaining than most of the better-advertised movies it will get paired with on double-feature bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Even when his Chouans and La Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Portrait | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Soon after midnight, as the lamps burned low, the wailing abbot and priest were blinded with quicklime and bound hand & foot. They were stretched on a pyre of straw, twigs and wood outside the temple doors, saturated with gasoline, and set on fire. Long black shadows danced against the surrounding trees, and a strange perfume infused the darkness above the crackling bonfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death in the Dog Days | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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