Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present much of the work is being done in a specially constructed room replete with treadmill, where temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero can be effected and the air thinned to simulate conditions of high altitude flying. There is even a special air lock leading into the chamber so that the faint can be removed without ruining the experiment...
...called time out, but the Bellboy drive continued until Lowell went ahead by three points. Three seconds before the final buzzer, with F-G holding a scant one point lead, Fred Donahoe tossed a long, low shot into the basket to give Lowell the victory...
...critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
Except for this feral foible, the Bororos are quiet folk. Their hearing is abnormally acute, their language so low in pitch that it is difficult for a white man to hear them. They often sit on stumps at a considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...
...captured Japanese film, moreover, this little picture gives unusually telling emphasis to the fact that it takes two to make a quarrel. (The Japanese film, incidentally, shows the strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to turn human beings into creatures out of a legend.) The film is probably the clearest exposition of the rhythm and strategy of a battle that has yet been put on a screen for laymen. Its deeply moving close: an airman, dead in his shattered plane, is given sea burial...