Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Penney home is a spacious Italian Renaissance villa of white limestone with a low roof of apricot-colored tiles. It overlooks Biscayne Bay, is set in the midst of tropical greenery cut by serpentine driveways. On the estate is a shallow goldfish pool bright with water blossoms, a mosaic tiled swimming pool, a putting green and an observatory with a little cupola like those of Mohammedan minarets...
...death rate of this mild endemic typhus is very low, one death in about every 500 cases. The death rate of epidemic typhus is very high, on the average 100 in every 500 cases. In filthy crowded districts, like Serbia during the first years of the War, the rate goes to 300 out of every 500 cases. Victims develop high fever (104 degrees & 105 degrees), chills, vomiting, headache, delirium, exhaustion, toxemia, death...
Whence had these strange and noisy creatures come, creatures whose eyes were purblind, whose wings had never sufficed to raise them over the hen hutch fence? Some of them came from Guilford, Conn. These were Reptilians, low birds reported immune to disease who seemed to glide rather than walk, an almost extinct breed whose 40 remaining members are owned by Breeder Paul P. Ives. Others, George Lowry's ten white leghorns who last year laid 3,014 eggs, came from West Willington, Conn...
...enabled Dr. Shapley to locate more accurately the center or nucleus of our Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...
...accepted his post as Director of Athletics under trying circumstances. Harvard's record in intercollegiate sport was at a low ebb which made the alumni thoroughly dissatisfied with the conduct of the athletic program and disinclined to contribute to its support. More than this, the name of college sport itself was under a cloud of criticism from persons who thought it harmful to the true purposes of a university; at Harvard this criticism was especially strong. If Mr. Bingham has brought harmony and helpful understanding--and he certainly has--out of discord and confusion, his success...