Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients on his list, which would give him a gross income of $13,600. In a few regions, there are more doctors than necessary (e.g., one to each 1,000 patients along Britain's south coast). The result is that doctors' income there is low. Though Bevan could raise their fees, he refuses to do so in these cases because he wants the south coast physicians to move to "underdoctored" areas...
...Clement Alvarez gave the doctors some unconventional advice: "Often what you find in a patient has nothing to do with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations...
...including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts: $75,000. Assets...
What did "declassed" mean? Answered Stravinsky: "To put somebody in a lower hierarchy." Said he: "When somebody feels himself a serious composer of classical music and suddenly is publicized as a jukebox composer-you know that hurt me." Furthermore, his use of the term "morally low" had nothing to do with personal morality; it just described how he felt when he found his music on the same shelf as that of the Cole Porters and Irving Berlins, fine fellows though they might...
That was the way Odom and his employer, Wichita's Beech Aircraft Corp., wanted him to look. They wanted to impress U.S. executives with the reliability, range, and low operating costs of personal planes. Odom's fuel bill for the trip...