Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long Division. In Singapore, after telling the court he could not repay $3,300 to his 26 creditors at one time, Low Chin Boon got 83 years in which to settle...
...atonality by one of the foremost U.S. members of the club. For three movements, Composer Weber has his strings weaving melancholy, attenuated fretworks of sound, giving way in the fourth movement to a darkly swelling choir and in the finale to a spasmodically defiant march. Fascinating, if a trifle low in body heat...
...score of 6-0, 8-6, 7-5, to keep his U.S. clay-court championship, and to prove again that he is without peer on clay, where the balls bounce high and true, although he may be an also-ran on grass, where the shots skid low and hard...
...Low Budget. When he got to Hollywood, Bill began a long series of low-budget pictures. They were equally low on profits. Then, in 1957, he made a horror film called Macabre. It was not much of a picture-in fact, it was a wretched thing -but Bill paid Lloyds of London $5,000 for life insurance covering anyone in the audience who died of fright. The picture cost only $80,000, grossed an estimated $1,200,000. This year, Bill released The House on Haunted Hill. The picture cost $150,000, but he spent $250,000 manufacturing skeletons that...
...show enough strength to reach the $500 billion mark by mid-1960. But the economy has snapped back from the recession-and hurtled on-faster than the most glowing optimists had predicted only a few months ago. It now stands at more than $50 billion above the 1958 recession low...