Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...helped to relieve the pressure of chronic unemployment-and made New York the biggest Puerto Rican city in the world. Charter and nonscheduled airline operators, competing fiercely for passengers on the San Juan-New York run, at one time knocked the price of passage down to as low as $10. Last year 260,000 Puerto Ricans were already in the U.S. and the northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have a recurrent nightmare in which the U.S. undergoes a business recession and the Puerto Ricans, who as unskilled workers...
Frankfurter, speaking from a low crouch, cited the famous Colorado vs. Wyoming case (1922) to back up his point. "I might also mention stare decisis, ex parcel post, and hic haec...
Dick O'Keeffe turned in a phenomenally low 69, to lead the scoring. Playing in the seventh slot for the Crimson, he managed to beat par by two strokes. Hugh Nawn of Harvard followed close behind with a 72, and two players on each team posted...
Double wins were registered by Dave Gregory in the mile and half mile, Ed Grutzner in the quarter and mile relay, Charlie Durakis in the high and low hurdles, and Dick Weiskopf...