Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reached his target he was flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...
...Cost. Almost as notable as the completeness of the Philippine victory was the relatively low cost of the damage done to the enemy. MacArthur's canny army commanders, General Walter Krueger (boss of the Sixth, on Luzon) and Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger (of the Eighth, in the southern islands), had carried out the reconquest with masterly economy of force. The cost accounting was still incomplete, but the latest compilation (made July 1) showed 11,921 Americans killed in the liberation of the Philippines, 401 missing and 42,569 wounded-a total...
...East bow'd low before the blast...
...page report, the commission found that the state of religion in Eng land has fallen so low that bold, modern methods (i.e., extensive use of radio, cinema, stage, television, the press) should be tried to revive it. Of the British people the commission said: "We are called to a far harder task than to evangelize heathen, who do worship (however ignorantly) a power higher than themselves. In England the Church has to present the Christian gospel to multitudes in every section of society who believe in nothing, who have lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate...
...questions that formed this year's general-knowledge examination at England's Eton College. Etonians, aged 13 to 18, got an hour and a half to answer the questions. The best of them got about 65% correct, while the youngest and dullest got as low...