Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Erie Stanley Gardner, who, in the past 16 years, has ground out 62 whodunits (mostly about Lawyer Perry Mason), landed in Manhattan after a visit to England, with an expert's explanation of Britain's low crime rate: "Respect for the law. Over here, it's kind of a game ... If you think you can get away with passing a red light, you will. The British don't look at it that...
...began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood solid as a steel lamppost against high blocks but fell "like a shock of wheat" before low ones. On another field, Blaik's defense unit drilled against Michigan pass plays until even the bystanders got tired of watching...
With such mock solemnity Wall Street marked the passing of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the giant utility holding company now finally dissolved under the Holding Company Act. For years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
Robert Ryan's appearance in a film (Crossfire, The Set-Up] has almost come to mean a low-budget picture with a future. He gives this movie some unexpected authenticity because he is capable of crossing black & white traits in a role without showing his hand. The standard rackets-film types include Thomas Gomez as a mobster who operates a sort of Murder, Inc. for Stalin, and Janis Carter as a party moll with a lazily upper-class voice and a glassy manner. The movie's one original character is a popeyed, free-lance killer (William Talman) with...
...appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers from their plain wives and set them at each others' throats...