Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar exemption was granted last year to permit the lower ceilings in Quincy House. City codes normally require ceilings at least eight feet high...
...give López Mateos' 1,000,000 new Mexicans houses and food, to raise the nation's standards of living, to lift members of the lower class into a better life at the same rate as recent years, Mexico must create 1,650 new jobs every day. In this task Adolfo López Mateos will probably cut close to the pattern of welfare-state capitalism that has given his country its great splurge of growth...
...Lower school-leaving age to 15, so that hoodlums and reluctant learners can be sent to work...
...belt, Scientist Van Allen told the American Physical Society at Chicago, seems to be a great doughnut made chiefly of fast-moving electrons and protons circulating around the earth on both sides of its magnetic equator (see diagram). Only the lower parts have been observed with any accuracy. The upper limits are deduced from knowledge of the magnetic field. The Air Force's Pioneer, soaring far past the 1,400-mile level reached by the Explorers, confirmed "tentatively and partially" that the lethal radiation drops off sharply around 7,000 miles...
Historian-Educator Jacques Barzun can be a mean critter when aroused, as he has been of late by contemporary prose (a "mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...