Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald MacKinnon, Jr. '43 of Newton Highlands, was elected last Monday afternoon to captain next year's Varsity track team. MacKinnon, who was recently chosen secretary of the Varsity Club, has been a consistent winner in the high and low hurdles for the Mikkolamen this year...
Starting at a low of 6,300,000 listeners (Hooper rating, 9.7) on June 10, 1936, the President wandered over graphic foothills for four years, suddenly leaped to a peak of 42,500,000 listeners (57.0) for the Stab-in-the-Back broadcast of June 10, 1940. As national self-absorption went down, Presidential audiences went up- 43,900,000 (59.0) for the Arsenal of Democracy Speech; 53,800,000 (69.8) for the Declaration of National Emergency; 62,100,000 (79.0) for the War Message...
...other Negro artists are first-rate- especially a young Negro boy with a trumpet, knee-deep in Bach at a New Orleans music academy. He loathes the formalized Bach exercises, wants to play his kind of music. After a few bars he does, riding away, loud and low, right out of the academy...
...world where opera is looked on as champagne & caviar for the rich, this was a feat. The San Carlo has never had wealthy backers or subsidies. Its goal has been low-priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...
...other cotton cloth, but conceals this fundamental difference: it is made without a spindle or a loom. Cotton web oozing softly from the carding machine is treated with an adhesive (still an unpatented secret), fed back into machinery resembling a paper mill, from which it emerges as a low-cost cotton cloth capable of giving other cotton goods some formidable competition...