Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S Science [April 17] has reached a new low. Of all the worthwhile science topics available . . . your "science experts" choose to waste the space on the bedroom habits of American homes. And of the 24% who sleep in pajamas, how many, pray, sleep in the tops only? And how many in the bottoms only? And "most women undress more slowly than they dress." This conclusion, gentlemen, is irrational...
...living, a liar in the attempt to amuse, or to be as he thinks smart, a liar in the daytime, and a liar in the nighttime, it is remarkable how he can lie. . . . That would make no difference to this 'revolving,' constitutional, unmitigated, infamous liar, this low-lived, double-crossing, dishonest, corrupt scoundrel who claims to be a columnist...
...summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls out of the sack, snuffed out the candle and slept...
Passengers who knew the route sat up front to tell the soldier-drivers where to go. Even so, many a bus went wrong-way through one-way streets, opened new routes on virgin streets, got thoroughly lost. In East London an errant double-decker tried to squeeze under a low bridge, sliced its top off (nobody was riding on top). The driver, long weary of inaction, surveyed the wreckage with a blissful smile...
Editor Charlton prodded soldiers to write him letters about the slow mail service, editorialized on it, finally stirred the House of Commons to action. There was a campaign on the low pay of British combat troops-and Parliament moved again. Charlton (and soldiers' letters) beefed about the India-tobaccoed V-cigarets which even the Italians rejected. Thence forth only British smokes were sent over seas...