Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the council, the Masters comply already either wholly or partially with most of the recommendations in the petition. They do give preference for the low-priced rooms to men holding scholarships and jobs. They do require confidential financial report blanks of applicants for the low-priced rooms as the petition seems to advise...
...recent months there has been less anti-Japanese terrorism in the Shanghai International Settlement than in Shanghai territory ruled exclusively by Japan. But Japanese suspect, with reason, that many of Japan's murdered Chinese puppets have been killed by assassins lying low in the Settlement...
...interesting facts about their private arrangements. Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...
That they also enable panicked noncombatants to identify low-flying raiders, and even bombers in the middle military altitudes, is of no great military importance. Defending anti-aircraft crews identify friendly and enemy planes by their distinctive silhouettes, and to them wing and tail markings are only confirming evidence that approaching ships should be fired on or allowed...