Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streamlined look of the new models had not been accomplished without certain annoying disadvantages. Some roofs were so low that a medium-sized man had to take off his hat to sit down-a phenomenon which caused Manhattan Designer Raymond Loewy to dash off a critical cartoon for the benefit of the Society of Automotive Engineers...
...Rome, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti was feeling tiptop for the first time since he was laid low by a would-be assassin last July 14. He presided at a meeting of the Communist Central Committee, addressed a wildly cheering political meeting of 150,000, and expected to go back to his seat in Parliament...
Columbia makes a tradition of having presidents who dabble in politics. Seth Low was a noted reform mayor of New York. Nicholas Murray Butler was, for a time, a considerable power in Republican politics, and reputedly harbored White House ambitions...
...such a check-off procedure would have slowed down the ticket lines (speeded up by the addition of a third window) to last year's all-time low. And last year the HAA was jammed with complaints of the four hour wait necessary to procure tickets...
...Low bank accounts had fostered a Spring prediction that even the traditional prediction that even the traditional Princeton trip might have to be cancelled. HAA aid and $1200 in donations later assured the band of the wherewithall to get to Nassau by train...