Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main battle front at Chengchow, 300 miles on a direct rail line north of Hankow, the Japanese forces last week made only small gains. Retreating Chinese had cut dykes on the Yellow River north of the city and the saffron waters of "China's Sorrow" poured over the low-lying, sandy ground outside Cheng-chow, bogged down Japan's mechanized advance...
Coach Cromwell brings his teams along slowly, often makes his pupils lay off training in March if he thinks they are getting in top form too soon. He permits his jumpers to jump only once a week, spend the rest of their time doing gymnastics to develop muscles and low hurdles to perfect their stride. But modest Dean Cromwell insists his success is due to the Grade A material he gets from Southern California high schools, where 6-ft. high jumps and 9.8 hundreds are the rule rather than the exception...
...year-old Caleb Hornbostel, son of a celebrated Pittsburgh architect, Henry Hornbostel, designer of the Hell Gate Bridge. Physically unlike as partners in a musical comedy team, Hornbostel and Bennett nevertheless had much in common. They studied at the Beaux Arts together, returned to the U. S. at the low point of the Depression, picked up whatever work they could get in the days when 90% of U. S. architects were unemployed. Bennett designed store fronts, electric signs, posters; Hornbostel got a job with...
...their second biggest crop in five years. Estimates have placed the total yield at 13,000,000 bales, compared to 12,400,000 in 1936, 10,630,000 in 1935. With a carryover of 14,000,000 bales from last year, this bumper crop can mean but one thing-low prices. In 1936, average price for cotton was 12.3? a bale; in 1935, 11.1?. Last week the spot price of cotton in New Orleans tumbled to 7.88?, lowest it has ever been in terms of the pre-New Deal gold dollar...
Three different spot landing events will test th pilots' skill in handling his plane; in the 360 degree spot landing the pilot will have to make a complete circle from a low altitude and try to make his plane land as near to a line as possible. The 280 degree event will be from a lower altitude and be only a semicircle. Then comes the bullseye landing, where the pilot has to guide his plane to a landing on a spot...