Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making sex their slogan, they are degrading what can be a clean and memorable evening of fun into an event which any of us would be ashamed to have our parents attend. Whether these candidates would be able to carry out their programs or not. I object to the low character which they are trying to give to our Freshman Smoker. These candidates are basing their programs not on now and original ideas with which to make the Smoker a success, but rather on sex alone, with no regard for morals or decency...
...dressing room, away from reporters. When he finally let them in, there was an uncomfortable silence. When a photographer said, "Give us a big smile, Joe," Louis managed a wry grimace. "C'mon, Joe," somebody shouted, "you can smile bigger than that." Answered Joe in a low voice: "I can't open my mouth no more." Wasn't Walcott entitled to a return match? He certainly was, said...
...watching the screen," complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
...This low finance was as high as Trader got, but chimpanzees can master a subtler money economy. At Yale's Laboratories of Primate Biology, Dr. John Wolfe confronted six young and impressionable chimpanzees with a "chimp-o-mat," a slot machine which passed out a grape when fed a white poker chip. The chimps learned quickly how to operate the contraption. They also learned that poker chips were things of value, to be cherished and scuffled...
...years, despite two wars and in the face of obstacle after obstacle, HDC has managed to offer two productions annually. Now, with HTW standing as a strong rival organization to HDC, the University is threatened with a renaissance of undergraduate dramatic activity after the low plumbed in the late thirties. The University has evidence of strong undergraduate support for a War Memorial Student Activities Center, which according to plans would include an auditorium theatre. If SAC should be vetoed as a War Memorial, future historians would be able to trace an attitude that was born in Puritan times, and that...