Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 28 years of protecting Jersey City from the consequences of low taxes, up-to-date schools, free speech, the C.I.O., and modern sewers, Mayor Frank Hague faced another election. As the campaign went into its last fortnight, profane, puritanical-looking Boss Hague was able to contemplate the works of his opponents with heavy-lidded equanimity...
Jenkins topped the individual scorers by winning the 120 yard high hurdles, tying for first in the high jump, and taking second in the 220 low hurdles Hunter followed by just losing to Jenkins in the 120 low hurdles and beating...
will be paid to packers when cattle sell at top prices. Purpose of these payments: to shore up the sagging earnings of packers crushed between high prices for cattle and low ceilings on meat products...
...Froide & Low Freight. When the first Spaniards and Frenchmen set foot in the New World they bestowed their most resounding titles on their settle ments and, like the Indians, kept the simpler, descriptive names for streams, woods and hillocks. But to their plain, pioneering successors, both these sorts of names were fancy nuisances. When a henchman of King Philip of Spain sonorously created La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco (The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis), he had hardly turned his back before it was ruthlessly hacked down to what it is today...
...French fared even worse. Some of their importations survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...