Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team batting average of the Crimson nine has reached a new peak of 280 for the year as the result of consistent slugging in the last three contests. The defense, on the other hand, has crumpled sadly on occasions and will enter the Yale series with the low season average...
...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...
...foreign periodicals which have the largest circulation because of their low price are of the least value culturally. They are enabled to compete with national publications because they collect high rates for their advertising, based on their large circulation...
...many years since "Bolshevik" was a popular synonym for a low, ruffianly fellow and "ruble" was a popular synonym for the ultimate in worthless money. But though the U. S. Department of State remains unaware of the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, U. S. industry is now inclined to believe that Russians habitually pay their bills and that a ruble in the hand is as good as 51½¢ in the bank. Thus last week Amtorg, Russian trading corporation at No. 261 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, announced the following contracts entered into by U. S. corporations with Soviet...
...America France Lines, which operate freighters between U. S. and French, Dutch and Belgian ports. Again Bidder Chapman was high. He offered $3,981,343.26 for 18 of the 23 ships in the two lines. This bid figured out at $25.38 a ton; other bids scaled down to as low as $14 a ton. No official acceptance of the Chapman bid was announced, but it appeared not unlikely that American Diamond and America France Lines would follow to where United States and American Merchant Lines had already gone...