Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abbreviations: E Excellent G Good F Fair Up. Upper Lwr. Lower Lim. Limited MAINE Enchanted Valley E Lost Valley E Sugarloaf G Pleasant Mt. G Saddleback F VERMONT Sugarbush E Bromley G-E Middlebury Snow Bowl G Stratton G Pico Peak G Lim. Killington F-G Up., G Lwr. Ascutney F-G Haystack F-G Jay Peak G Up., G-E Lwr. Okemo Lim., Lwr. only Mt. Snow F Up., G-E Lwr. Stowe G Up., G-E Lwr. Mad River F Up. G-E Lwr. NEW HAMPSHIRE Attitash G Intervale G Wilderness F-G Wildcat F-G Dartmouth Skiway...
...that Lopata's reconstructed windpipe would not let food into his lungs, they built an artificial valve just below the base of his tongue (see diagram) by cutting into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next phase...
...lines, and look for nail holes plugged with plastic wood in places where a cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where the old thunder mugs were kept...
Girl students in America are of a lower class. Harvard University admits no girls but has set up a separate institute for them. Superficially this looks like mere segregation of girls from boys. In reality it is discrimination against the girl students. Large numbers of university girls study domestic science. All day long what they study is how to marry wealthy husbands of their choice, how to manage their home affairs, and how to help their husbands climb up the ladder. These represent the outlook on life of many an American girl student...
...professors in American universities receive very low salaries. Their pay is generally one-third and even one-half lower than the income of workers in other social occupations. This being the treatment of university professors, there is no need to mention the salaries for secondary school teachers. When a summer or winter vacation comes, the problem that worries the professors most is how to make their living during the long, long holiday. Many of them are forced to change their calling to become waiters, to toil as farm hands or to act as circus clowns. Any work is better than...