Word: lows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. J. Brown confined his crews to a low stroke in the early workout, ordering that attention be paid to length of reach and timing of the catch. The University and the Jayvee boats took the jaunt side by side at a beat not exceeding 25 down or back...
...running mate of Williams in the doubles grouping, by coming from behind after dropping the initial set 4-6 and capturing the event 6-4, 6-2. The Crimson captain found the going difficult on the grass courts at first and upset his game trying to fathom the low bounces. In the last two sets, he found himself and swept Sullivan back with crisp drives to the baselines...
...Dumpy" is an exact, descriptive adjective, meaning, according to Webster's New International, "short and thick, of proportionately low stature." TIME is exact...
...increase in the Federal fund authorized to be loaned at low interest to U. S. shipbuilders, which was approved by President Coolidge, looked to farmer-sympathizers who did not know how much money the U. S. has put at the farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed...
...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...