Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports season of 1957-58 will be remembered, perhaps more than any other year, for its high and its low points. There were very few mediocre teams at Harvard this year; they were either good or bad. The lows were few, but they were bitter: the horrendous November afternoon at New Haven, the hockey team's decimation in Minneapolis, Yale's perennial defeat of the swimming team, and the heavyweight crew's third-place finish at the Sprints...
Hungarian-born Theodore von Karman, chief of NATO's AGARD in Paris, insists that in atomic and missile research the Germans were used only on a low technical level, points out that almost all have long since been sent home. "The Russians,'' says President Andrew G. Haley of the International Astronautical Federation, "didn't get as much from the Germans...
...will begin in the early 1960s. "It is likely to be difficult," he said, "to come out of this very rapidly." His reasons: 1) the artificial backlog of pent-up postwar demand has been satisfied; 2) the population boom is over for at least five years because of the low Depression-years' birth rate; 3) expenditures for new plants and equipment are likely to continue downward because of the nation's already large productive capacity; 4) consumer attitudes toward installment buying have changed ("It is popular now to avoid debt...
Gold-mining shares were eagerly bought on the world's stock exchanges last week. In London, trading was the heaviest in 3½ years, and prices climbed to the highest in nine months. Canada had a flurry in low-priced gold shares. In Wall Street, where gold shares have steadily climbed in the past year, Investment Bankers Dillon, Read let out that they are forming an investment trust ($30 million to start) to buy South African gold shares, thus adding another fillip to the London buying...
When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...