Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tables show that ivory, for instance, resists light and dark well but breaks down under heat. Granite and quartzite materials receive excellent ratings while painting and paper work are ranked rather low in their chances to overcome wartime perils...
...Grant Study should not be "nonentities," and should have no marked physical or mental defects. Thus the selection is careful and detailed, necessitating the checking and re-checking of the names of students in the Freshman class. Eliminated at the very beginning of the sorting process are those with low academic rating. These make up approximately 40 per cent of the class. Next the Hygicne Department records of the remaining 60 per cent of the original 1000 are read through, and those who seem qualified are rated "A." The list is now pared down to about 300 names. These...
...this well-balanced squad is Tyke Wilcox, a steady, cool golfer with more experience in match play than any Yardling in recent years, Willcox, a deadly man with his short irons and putter, is consistently in the low seventies, and seems a sure bet fore the '43 Varsity...
Spigelman recommendations: the Government should favor low-cost and high-profit enterprise with priorities and tax concessions, favor efficient management similarly with salaries and bonuses tied to production and profits. Last week a U.S. Department of Commerce report revealed that Germany had been doing just that: low-cost German industry gets exemption from excess-profits taxes in direct proportion to its productive efficiency...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...