Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stated that wealthy students have been "getting a bargain" in education. "College faculty members have subsidized education for a long time" through their low salaries, Alden noted...
Those institutions whose pay scales are highest will receive grades of "A", while those with low pay scales will be graded "F". Some schools, whose pay scales are extremely low, will receive no grades...
Dwight Eisenhower's political fire, according to all the polls, was burning low. But no one could ever have told it from his appearance in Oklahoma City last week for the second of his television series on national issues. From the moment of his arrival, he threw off the old popularity sparks. Riding in from Will Rogers Field in the presidential Lincoln, he stood like a campaigner with hands aloft before sign-carrying crowds ("We Liked Ike in '56. We Like Him Today"). That night at the Municipal Auditorium, he brought down the rafters with his retort...
...SLUNK with a shy smile into the embassy drawing room. The smoke-filled hall was an epitome of sophistication, dark suits, military uniforms, low-cut dowdy dresses, foreign correspondents with R.A.F. moustaches, and a large contingent of nervous Egyptian diplomats. It was possible in a flash to spot where the important people were gathered, for not an American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke...
...announcement struck the $150 million-a-year industry like a bombshell. The garment makers pay low wages, and only about 7,000 whites are willing to work for them. If the edict were put into effect, cried the clothing manufacturers, "we'd have to sack nearly 40,000 Negroes, and we can't get whites to take their place...