Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...work that they suffered from eyestrain, irritability, headaches. Even on a bright day children in the darkest part of a classroom may get only five foot-candles,* one-twentieth as much light as those near the windows, and on a dark day illumination of their desks may drop as low as one footcandle. The investigators claimed tests showed children did 28% better in reading when they had a minimum of 20 foot-candles...
CAMBRIDGE--Spencer, Steeds, Jerwood, Newton-Thompson, Folker, Hunter, Lindsay, Parry, forwards; Kemble, Parsons, Downes, Mallett, Ritchie, Leed, Low backs...
HARVARD CAMBRIDGE Hadden f.b. Low Watt r.w.3/4 Ritchie Cohen 1.w.3/4 Reed Constable c,3/4 Mallett Kennedy 2nd5/8 Downes Goft 1st5/8 Kemble Osgood h.b. Parsons Whitney Front Forward Steeds Clowes Front Forward Spencer Knapp Front Forward Heath Scott 2nd Row Jerwood Fisher 2nd Row Newton-Thompson Downes 2nd Row Folker Gephart 2nd Row Bateman-Champain Miller 3rd Row Williams...
Rusty was first taught the spring board art by his father, at an early age. His best point-total was 125, which he made while winning the New England Championships (low-board). 117 points, scored in the intercollegiates, is his best high-board performance...