Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overheated Faroe kitchens, hotheaded partisans recently have let the whale-oil lamps burn low while they argued the merits of proud independence on the one hand or Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, bearded by the press and attempting an explanation of British tolerance of demi-bared bosoms in the cinema: "Perhaps it is because we have a longer past. We know that often in our history women have worn low-cut dresses, and it doesn't shock us that Jane Russell looks more like a woman than any woman ought to look...
...clip.) No. 2: newsprint, $61 a year ago, had gone up to $85 a ton. No. 3: hard-headed John S. Knight, whose Daily News is the Sun's landlord, had raised the rent $800,000 a year. (The late Daily News Publisher Frank Knox had set it low, to help Field assault the Tribune.) Finally, said Field, he personally could go on taking losses for years-but if he died, his son could not. Inheritance taxes would come first...
What makes blue water blue? Every schoolboy knows that, on a clear day, the sea looks blue when looked at from a low angle: it is merely the blue sky reflected in the water's surface. But Dr. Francis A. Jenkins of the University of California and Dr. Ira S. Bowen, now director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, announced this week that they knew why deep water is also blue when looked at from above at close range...
...academic lingo, the discarded question has a low "biserial coefficient of correlation...