Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, Mr. Willkie gave a vivid picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that...
...required dives for the low board remain the same as before, but the high board is used for all meets if the opposing team's divers have three-meter facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...
Although this still is many thousands in a small space it is low enough-as compared with previous evacuations-for a laboratory man to become ecstatic." The pressure obtained is equivalent to one hundred-millionth of a millimetre of mercury, which is not far from one hundred-billionth of atmospheric pressure...
...telephone is his indispensable staff of authority. Whether he is nursing his asthma in Arizona or lunching at Stornaway House, a mile and a half away from the Express building, he is in almost continuous touch with his editors-ordering, suggesting, criticizing, cajoling, in his curiously low-pitched, insinuating telephone voice...
...medical problem. Baldwin can leave him to his doctors." David Low, the greatest cartoonist of the time, amuses himself with periodic laughs at Beaverbrook's expense in the Evening Standard. A sample is Low's picture of Beaverbrook at Christmas time, the press lord a tiny figure mailed like Richard the Lion-Hearted, catechizing Santa Claus for failing to bring enough Empire-made toys down his chimney...