Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhine's experiments attempted to discover whether a crapshooter's "Come seven, come eleven!" and other cabalistic cries really have any effect. Rhine's assistants eagerly concentrated on trying to throw high numbers (eight or above) or low numbers (six or below) at will. Results were recorded in "runs" of twelve throws each; the object was to get better than five hits (par according to chance...
There is no "world's best fighter plane." A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...
Thunderbolts have been in action only three months. But in that time they have made 5,238 operational sorties, in fighter sweeps and escorting high-flying Fortresses over France and the Low Countries. Their records have led Major General Ira Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, to boast that the Army now has an airplane which can outfight the Focke-Wulf 190, top German high-altitude fighter...
...Most farmers are also cagily plunking down more & more hard cash for the land they buy, even though interest rates are temptingly low. In the last quarter of 1942 only half the parcels of land bought in the North Central states involved any mortgage at all, and of those, 35% of the purchase prices was paid for in cash. In the Northern Plains only 18% of all the recorded transfers involved a mortgage...
...distinguished himself in several difficult oboe, passages, but Mrs. Goldovsky's rendering of the three Mozart arias was somewhat less than Brilliant. Her voice, though warm in tone, was lacking in firmness at times, and seemed strained on the high notes. The extreme range of the first aria, however, (low A to high C) may account for some of this difficulty. Richard Burgin, concert master of the Boston Symphony, demonstrated his remarkable precision and control in the "Haffner" Serenade in D major (K. 250), although two of his cadenzas seemed some what too romantic for a Mozart concerto...