Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bickering, was still confident. He was sure that he had found a sound campaign argument in the record of the 80th Congress. In his own homely style he would pound it home across the nation. And his fortunes and popularity would probably rise a bit. They could hardly sink lower...
...small towns and big cities of the Northeast and Middle West. The thunderclouds will bank up over the medium-sized cities of the South and Far West. Dewey's strongest support will come from prosperous men over 35; he will encounter the most opposition from young, lower-income voters, women and union members. Among the independents (whom Pollster George Gallup last fortnight estimated at 29% of the voting population), Candidate Dewey will just about hold...
...European countries get any kind of a break, agreed that the decrees were "a step in the right direction." But they scoffed at the Buenos Aires story that it was part of a big deal that would shoot ECA dollars into Argentina. That still waited for: 1) lower Argentine wheat and meat prices; 2) Argentine willingness to pay at least part of the estimated $475 million now owing to U.S. firms...
...college's Ward Medal "for proficiency in French" went to a classmate whose grades were lower. Four City College instructors indignantly declared that their department head, Professor William E. Knickerbocker, had passed Gurewitch over because...
...Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...