Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, fast athlete with lots of power and a strong competitor is the real type of high hurdler. An athlete who competes in the high and low hurdle event at the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet needs plenty of stamina as he may be compelled to run from 6 to 10 heats and finals in the two day competition and in each heat and final he must run faster than the preceding one. As a matter of fact the ordinary hurdler will do better by specializing in one event as should be elect the two competitions...
France. The franc, continuing to feel the pressure exerted by British financiers to keep their own currency steady during the strike, slumped again to a low record for all time...
...training camp tor their leaders. For the opening there came together Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from 39 nations. There were Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, the National Director; Lady Baden-Powell (wife of Sir Robert who founded the Scout movement in England), who is the international leader; Mrs. Juliette Low, who introduced the Girl Guide movement in America (but American girls insisted on being called Scouts like their brothers; so their name differs from the name of affiliated groups in England) ; Mrs. Herbert Hoover, the U. S. chairman of the Executive Board; some 400 American Scout leaders, some 50 foreign...
...some bedraggled trader would manage to squeeze from the press of bodies and jump on the seat to scream his offers. On the mob's fringe, for it was a veritable mob which left the rest of the Floor deserted, fubbers tried to make private deals at as low as 51. They wasted their petty time, for the Board of Governors does not countenance such illicit transactions. Finally the ticker by mistake recorded a 30,000 trade at 52 for the real trade of 3,000 at that figure. The bears then scurried to cover so hard that...
Phillips Academy, Andover, has shown an interesting series of fluctuation in the number of men entering Harvard. In 1916 the number stood at 33, and in 1925 at 29. In 1917, the number sank as low as 19; in 1921, it rose to 33 again, and on the following year it again sank...