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Word: lowlier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crab" means, and that at Dartmouth there are only three seasons: before, during and after winter. For girls on their way to Annapolis or West Point, Weekend gives full details on military protocol, and how to distinguish cadet first classmen by the stripes on their sleeves from the lowlier "cows" or "yearlings" (at the Point "You walk everywhere, spend your own money, and half the time you're not with your escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Of Dates & Drags | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...37th Street Gromyko turned west through a block of millinery establishments, part of the great U.S. garment industry created largely by men & women who sprang from Gromyko's part of the world, and from a lowlier station in life than his had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Gromyko Takes a Ride | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...monkey wrench into the music of H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Musical in Manhattan | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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