Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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College civilian registration will drop during the spring term to a low mark of an estimated 677 undergraduates as against a pre-war total of 3500, Dean Buck announced last night. The entering Freshman Class of 75 will swell the Class of 1947 to 644 men, of whom an estimated 350 will remain to study in Cambridge in the coming trimester...
Britons have a steadily deepening interest in U.S. as well as home politics. Two weeks ago the Yorkshire Post, owned by Anthony Eden's family, asked Americans to reelect Mr. Roosevelt. Last week the Church of England Newspaper (which, despite its name, speaks only for a Low Church faction) plunked for Term IV: "To pretend that the [U.S.] election this year is the concern only of the American people is just stupid. . . . [It] is fraught with incalculable significance for all mankind...
...stock died from bleeding scratches and bumps, like human hemophiliacs. He found the guilty chemical in spoiled sweet-clover hay, named it Dicumarol because it is formed from the harmless chemical, coumarin, which gives fresh clover its smell. The cows' problem was solved by planting clover with a low coumarin content...
Wartime trading had boosted the volume of shares from 125,700,000 traded in 1942 to 278,750,000 in 1943. This was less than one-third of booming 1928. The price of Exchange membership jumped, too; from the 40-year low of $17,000 in 1942, the cost of a seat had risen to a $47,000 high last year...
Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...