Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollars, plus a hoard of $2 bills. Estimated total: upwards of $250,000. Fearing that cartwheels might be scarce some day-the last batch was minted in 1935-West built up a reserve supply, apparently added the emergency store of deuces just in case the silver-dollar stockpile ran low. Jim West was no man to let himself get into the embarrassing plight of having to hand out ordinary $1 bills...
...National Guardsmen and 137 cops. Two days before, as Central High seniors marched away from their baccalaureate service, a white youth was arrested for spitting in the face of a Negro girl. But from the white parents gathered for the graduation of their children, there was only the usual low rustle of voices as Green, the only senior among the nine Negroes who entered Central High last September, got his diploma. Prospect for Scholar Green: four years of study at Michigan State under a full-tuition scholarship, leading to work...
...seconds after each pullout. As we homed to Langley (going supersonic on the way), Brett told me that he had felt as clearheaded during weightlessness as in any other acrobatic flight, had never for an instant forgotten his oil-pressure gauge, which might easily have dipped dangerously low in these maneuvers. His clearheadedness showed that training can make a big difference...
When the nose cone hit the atmosphere after its arch through space, its tip got so hot that it glowed like a star. It was, in effect, a man-made meteor that gradually lost speed by air friction. When its speed was low enough (figure secret) to eliminate further heating, a lot of things started happening fast...
...lure more motorists into sports cars, British Motor Corp. this week added a low-priced stablemate to its MGs and Austin-Healeys, which now give it the biggest share ($49,500,000 a year) of the U.S. sports-car market. The new entry: Austin-Healey's Sprite. Price in Manhattan: $1,849, the cheapest British sports car (next cheapest: MG, at $2,526). Powered by a souped-up 48-h.p. version of Austin's four-cylinder A35 engine, the two-passenger Sprite does 35 miles on a gallon, accelerates from o to 70 m.p.h. in 34 seconds...