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Word: lows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several times a day models descend the stairs to the platform over the pool for a fashion show--one of the biggest crowd pullers of the entire Exposition. The clothes modeled are all in a low-price range, to substantiate the claim of presenting "average" American life...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Impressions of the Brussels Exposition: Diversities, Faults Typify 'World, '58' | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

...graduation of the HTG core in the spring of 1953 left the debt-ridden HDC all alone. Since the HDC had been able to squeak out only one major show in each of the previous two years, it looked as though 1953-54 might sink to a theatrical low. But a number of coincidences brought about quite a different result...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: College Post-War Student Theatre: 332 Shows Staged by 47 Groups | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...coming elections, they will probably lead to paradoxical results. The electorate is, in all likelihood, much better disposed toward de Gualle than toward the various parties, with their small membership and low vitality. The voters will have no other choice, however, than to re-elect most of the old party war horses...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: General DeGaulle's Attempt At Squaring the Circle | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...Defiant Ones is yet another example of what too much money and too low an opinion of the general mentality can do to a potentially fine picture. The basic idea is a fine one: a white convict and a black one escape from a chain gang together. They hate one another as only a poor white and a down-trodden negro can; but they must co-operate in even the simplest act of daily life...

Author: By Daniel Field, | Title: The Defiant Ones | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

Such a finale was only a repetition of a first period drive which was stymied on the six and resulted in Halaby's field goal (a smart move designed to get the lead in what was to be a low-scoring contest), and of a thrust to the three early in the second period, which came to nothing after a couple of repulsed line bucks and two overthrown passes. The Crimson will have to sharpen its passing attack and improve its drive in front of the goal line in order to cast much weight in the Ivy League this year.Mud...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Buffaloes Halt Crimson Attack, 6-3 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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