Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency was discovered last Friday when the Massachusetts blood bank, which usually gives blood free to whoever needs if, announced that it was refusing requests because of a low supply...
This year's drought, the worst in ten years, puts Spain in a desperate position. Grain is critically short--Madrid's otherwise fertile surrounding plains were brown scorched dust. Necessary raw materials, except in the relatively prosperous Barcelona section, are virtually non-existent, partly because of Spain's low productivity, and partly because of few favorable trade agreements; mechanical equipment such as tractors is for the far-distant future. Railroad stock, built before the 1936 Civil War, is worn out: trains are the slowest, dirtiest, most uncomfortable in Europe...
...conceded that, academically, Oxford was topnotch and that things like "Magdalen Deer Park on a medium cloudy day" were pretty fine. But as for everything else, mourned Burdick: "Youf writers have lifted the illusion so high, and war, proximity, and perhaps even the dollar shortage have forced reality so low...
...unsportsmanlike plot, involving a low trick on fish, is being cooked up by Dr. Konrad Kreutzer, a well-known German physicist. According to an official report last week in the U.S. Department of Commerce's Foreign Commerce Weekly, Dr. Kreutzer put two electrodes in the water of Lake Constance, passed a current between them, and observed (as had been observed before) that fish in such a spot tend to head toward the positive electrode. He also observed that an increase in the current made their tails wiggle. This gave him his big idea. When a fish's tail...
...LaFlamme haircut is, according to the entrepreneurs, both natural and professional. It is low in back and done almost entirely with scissors because the management believes most barbers use the electric clipper to excess...