Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Likable, low-pressure Mayo Smith was rudely fired after more than three years of indifferent success as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, was replaced by onetime (1948-52) Phils' Manager Eddie Sawyer, last man to lead the team to a pennant...
Covering the low-pressure revolt back in Beirut, an army of 200 sport-shirted newsmen found that the Lebanese rebels were accessible through a phone call from the Hotel St. Georges bar. Rebel headquarters was just a short cab ride away and any correspondent could drop past for tea with Rebel Leader Saeb Salam...
...Low Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal...
...Harvard years again, Beebe writes, "I would make certain changes for the better, such as no drinking champagne for breakfast and fewer bad cheques fobbed off on temperamental bootleggers. But they were wonderful years in a wonderful world of Mercer runabouts . . . Upmanns from Leavitt & Peirce and the reasonably low bail conventionally set at Boston's Precinct Station 16 for Harvard undergraduates...
...counter's tube. The more sophisticated instruments of Explorer IV, two Geiger counters and two scintillation counters, are designed to measure the radiation accurately and tell what kind it is. They will report over two radio transmitters, a high-powered one on 108.03 megacycles, a low-powered one at 108 megacycles, both with chemical batteries. Explorer IV has no solar battery, no magnetic tape, no mouse...