Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis could not seem to bring himself to talk paychecks. Instead, he dramatized the need for a miner's "health and welfare fund," hinted that he might ask reduction of their current 54-hour work week to one of 35 hours-with no reduction in the current base wage of $63.50. He paraded his 30 U.M.W. district presidents for the operators, bawled out critical columnists, craftily put off the final, secret negotiating session at which he would talk unmistakable turkey...
Little Father Lenin was having a tough time of it. In 1942, the Finsbury Borough Council had erected a statue to Russia's First Proletarian in front of the Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...
...Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base. But the rookies expected to shine brightest were two boys with the same name, but different ways of spelling it: stumpy Grady ("Hoss") Hatton of the Cincinnati Reds and screwball Joe Hatten of the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...most money) because he didn't think he'd like Brooklyn; a Card scout wrote him a nine-page letter, but he thought the Cardinals were too penny-pinching. Finally he took a $27,500 bonus for joining the Reds. If Hoss doesn't play third base this year, General Manager Warren Giles says he will have to fire five scouts...
Print papers have a gelatinous silver emulsion on a tough paper base. In the Resisto papers the base is impregnated with an acetate which makes it practically waterproof. Developing, fixing and washing solutions are thus absorbed by the emulsion only. Using Resisto, photographers need take only two minutes for fixing, four minutes for washing, three minutes for drying their prints. The results, says Eastman, are durable...