Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some states provide good education. They can afford reasonably decent salaries for teachers and reasonably decent school buildings for students. Other states--particularly in the South--simply cannot afford passable education. The national average is low. The result, educationalists say, is that millions of children are getting a lousy break, and our society is suffering...
...Ankle Low. Barbirolli's terms for staying were unselfish. He asked and got a raise for his men (none for himself), an increase in the size of his orchestra (to 100 pieces) and a fund for at least one foreign tour a year. The Halle Concert Society was glad to pay. It was a bargain to keep the man who in five years hac hammered and planed their famed but disintegrated 91-year-old orchestra back into top shape-and who, incidentally, hac salvaged his own career in the doing...
When Conductor (and Cellist) Barbirolli and his oboe-playing British wife Evelyn Rothwell packed aboard a Portuguese freighter in New York five years ago, his musical stock was ankle low. At 37, a youngster as conductors go, he had made the tactical mistake of following Arturo Toscanini to a podium that had taken all of the Maestro's fire and ice to control. As boss of the proud, 106-year-old New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Barbirolli had neither Toscanini's precise beat nor his fearsome bearing. The musicians were soon in a state of anarchy. Barbirolli left unhappily...
...With Green Hair (RKO Radio) is a "message" movie, dolled up. RKO's new boss Howard Hughes, who would rather gamble on low necklines than on lofty messages, inherited the picture from the Dore Schary regime, spent thousands fiddling with it, and ended up by reluctantly releasing the original...
...temperature is low enough, hockey Coach Stan Priddy's freshmen face off against St. Mark's today...