Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roving researcher on the problems of the English language. A year ago he was made a professor, but he still spends more time working on Basic than he does on teaching. With a staff of assistants, he started a Basic English radio program for Latin America, produced a batch of Basic texts for Spaniards and Portuguese, helped Walt Disney make Basic educational shorts for the Army...
...hide, ears and tail of the Prohibition Party, the Watch and Ward Society and all other Nosey Parker institutions for the small, unoccupied mind. In a nutshell, you can throw your weight around for a more mature, tolerant, beautiful America into which to lead the next dewy-eyed batch of moppets...
...announced Eastman, it had had a bit of radium trouble some time ago. A batch of film had been spoiled by packing it in cardboard made partly of waste paper from a factory using radium paint. Since then, the company had tested all packing materials for radioactivity. For a long time no trouble showed up. But recently, a shipment of strawboard proved to have 1,000 radioactive specks per sheet. The batch of strawboard had been discarded. The company preferred to say no more...
Biting their nails like so many prospective fathers, businessmen have waited for third-quarter earnings of the "reconversion" quarter. Only then would they know what cutbacks and the shift to peacetime production had done to profits. Last week, as the first batch of reports came out, the nail-biting stopped...
...Grimm's frisky Cubs seemed to have more life than the lifeless Tigers-even on the bench. Jolly Cholly got kissed by Actress June Haver, and was told by Mrs. Grimm not to come home without a victory. But Steve O'Neill had been busy brewing a batch of pitching TNT-Trout, Newhouser, Trucks...