Word: lowest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawley's prime job is to raise the sights for the employee: "[We] have only one objective-that of offering the best in medical service at the lowest possible cost...
...Shake. Other recent Wright projects: a Dallas hotel which, "unlike most commercial hotels . . .is planned chiefly for comfort and entertainment of guests," and a sports club for the Hollywood hills, featuring vast saucers of concrete, cantilevered out from a central shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either...
...McKittrick, Henry Foster, Phil Emerson, and Steve Mead, the four-lowest-ranking members of the Varsity squad, accounted for the team's entire score. The squad entered the Army match with a six-game winning streak...
...gone by the board. Once brokers thought stocks were worth buying if they sold at no more than ten times their annual earnings. But last week, even the 30 "blue chips" used to measure the Dow-Jones industrial average were selling at only 8½ times their earnings, the lowest ratio in over 20 years...
...Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close to a month's salary for the average top engineer...