Word: lower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost all crews now employ this technique with minor variations. Even Yale, which for the past two years has been rowing at fantastic beats, sometimes going as high as 45, has now changed its strategy in favor of the lower stroke...
...shells leap away from the stake boats at 40 strokes a minute for the first few hundred yards, and then settle into a longer, lower pace for the long pull through the middle of the race. Here the first variation in strategy appears, as the different strokes set the beat. Bill Curwen, for instance, never takes more than 10 sprinting strokes at the start, and then drops the beat all the way down to 31 for the rest of the race...
Such price-cutting near the peak of summer buying had not been heard of in years. But sales were still under last year's. Retailers were hastily trying to clear out old merchandise, notably textiles, as new, lower-priced dresses reflecting the wholesale price cuts of the past few months came in. For the first time in seven years, women could buy neat, fashionable dresses for less than...
...than early price reductions. It would appear that many appliance retailers have found their sales off as much as 50% [in 1949]. However, [price reductions] are about the one thing the manufacturers are unwilling to face . . . Relatively little has been done to meet the public's demand for lower prices. The only question seems to be whether industry will move in quickly and do the needed thing or whether it will invite a couple of seasons of bad business and then finally have to take even deeper cuts...
Freshman golfers went to Andover Saturday and won an easy 6 1/2 to 2 1/2 victory. Harvard's Mitch Rosenholtz was low man with a 68--one point lower than the varsity's best score this year...