Word: baneful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinds of critical accolades. Now 20th Century-Fox has got its hands on the same little book, and again come up with a new title--it seems the first one (the name of a dog) had all the evil earmarks for a War Picture, a current boxoffice bane. But what goes with the title this time is not so remarkable...
Hewitt and his men also defeated a strong headwind, usually the bane of light crews, by showing better coordination and holding a higher beat than the Carlsons. Hewitt stroked 31 for most of the race, Carlson...
English A, joy of the esthete and bane of the less creative, is a dying actor on the Harvard scene. But its venerable life has been given momentary reprieve by failure of the Committee on General Education to act on its own suggestion and integrate the teaching of writing into the framework of the General Education program. In its 1945 report the Committee maintained that the segregation of English composition from other fields of learning was a serious weakness in the present system. However, the suggested plan remains lost in the voluminous report, since next year's nearly doubled schedule...
...Long the bane of Math A goers, the course texts, written by former staff members Osgood and Graustein, are admittedly inferior and used mainly for their homework problems. In places the subject matter is incorrect and in others it is now taught differently. The Department has rejected all substitutes, however, as being even more inadequate for the purpose of the course. If the staff refuses to use other books in the field, then it is clearly time to write one of its own, designed expressly for the course, as in English...
...walked from his home for the first time in two years, took 35? worth of equipment to the edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches of prizes, including 104 cases of Pepsi-Cola...