Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What does it mean when an orator says "in Russia's sphere of influence the civil liberties of non-Communists are suppressed?" Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Low was in Szeged, a south Hungarian town famous for paprika and embroidered slippers, when Communist suppression became a dramatic reality. Low cabled...
...Federation Aeronautique Internationale in the days when airplanes were made of sticks and cloth and wire. To establish an official speed record, a plane must stay below 75 meters (246 ft.) over the measured course, and it cannot rise above 1,312 ft. on the turns beyond. Such low-level flying is hampering and hazardous for modern, high-speed jet planes...
...Salt Lake City, Negro track stars set two new world's records: Illinois' Herb McKenley ran the quarter-mile in :46.2, and Baldwin-Wallace's Harrison Dillard, the 220-yard low hurdles in :22.3. Each was two-tenths of a second better than the old record...
Since 1920, the British auto industry has been working under the protective wraps of an auto tax of ?1 a horsepower. Thus, low-powered British cars were taxed as little as ?10 ($40) a year, while higher-powered U.S. cars were taxed $130 or more. So Britons bought small British cars. That pleased the protectionist manufacturers...
...cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness, and for envy too serene, too fair for blind intolerance, too just and seeing and too strong for hate, too honest for base dealing, too high for low suspiciousness, too innocent for all the scheming tricks of swarming villain yet never had been taken in a horse trade...