Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real news from Portugal was that another European dictatorship had failed, though it might hang on for years. In the way of dictatorships, it had stunned and shackled the wholesome forces that might have replaced it. Not only was Portugal at a new low point, it showed every sign of changing for the worse, perhaps slowly, perhaps by violent upheaval...
Much of the furniture at the Chicago show was transition stuff: solid but not stylish. Production of bedroom suites, the item in greatest demand, is lagging 50% behind orders. But there were plenty of lamps, end tables, and low-priced occasional pieces...
...symptoms: swollen joints, fever, rheumatic nodules at the elbow, knee and other joints. "When it is typical, the disease is easy to diagnose," says Dr. Schwentker, "but the big majority of cases are not typical. The patient may suffer from vague, fleeting pains in the joints and have a low fever." Mistakes in diagnosis are again common until the heart's valves and blood vessels become inflamed...
Hardy's novels as a whole delighted U.S. readers, but they gravely shocked a few. Two on a Tower, serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in 1882, was considered so "risque" and "low" that the author was never again allowed to sully the pages of the Atlantic. In 1891 Tess of the D'Urbervilles ran serially in Harper's Bazar (then a different magazine, both in spelling and in spirit, from what it is now), and this too proved shocking to what J. Henry Harper described as "a number of anxious mothers." But Tess, quite apart from...
...present board rate of $10.50 per week or 50 cents per meal is in keeping with the University's policy of holding student board bills as low as possible and still covering expenses, the letter continued. Reynolds pointed out that the nominal charge of 50 cents per meal does not cover the cost of each meal. The cost of each meal to the University is roughly 63 cents: 30 cents for food, 20 cents for labor, and 13 cents for other expenses...