Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Total University enrollment has dropped, however, from the peacetime average of 8,000 to a wartime low of 1,800, and the difference has been made up by the Army and Navy, which have sent men here to take advantage of the University's special facilities to acquire new and needed wartime skills...
...will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy him. For he is dynamite. Like Roosevelt he is glamorous, he is a romantic, dashing figure with a popular appeal...
...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...
...brown dog wandered into court, sniffed Sir Oscar's feet and went out. A plane roared low overhead and the Court Crier, an elderly Negro, seated on the step below the Bench to keep mosquitoes off His Honor's ankles, woke with a start, began...
Most popular of the coded, low-cost radiograms which shuttle between overseas servicemen and their families is Number 1, "Letter received. Many thanks." But pushing the leader harder than ever last week, said Mackay Radio, were Numbers 85 ("Son born") and 86 ("Daughter born...