Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automobile headlights threw a low glare over the Army polo field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis...
...crowd at any Harvard Yale grid-iron battle. In recent years, however, with the annual game coming more into prominence, the ever-growing size of the University and its alumni body, and the resultant larger crowds, a remedy became necessary. The annual erection of wooden stands at a comparatively low cost seemed to have solved the problem. With the completion and occupancy of the Business School buildings in the fall of 1926, the Boston Building Commissioner decided that the wooden stands constituted a fire menace, and informed the University last autumn that this threat must be removed. Hence according...
...plane swooped low, roaring. That at last was intimidating. The beasts dropped to their bellies and scuttled into the swamps of Komodo...
BROADWAY-The low down on the liquor industry, soft shoe dancing, cold hearted crime (TIME, Sept...
BURLESQUE-A very low comedian with a very lovely wife barely manage to live happily ever after (TIME, Sept...