Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pink salmon, obligingly giving special attention to its eatable qualities. He pointed at what all experienced salmon-eaters know: that no dyed-in-the-wool salmon-devourer will ever be afflicted with "deficiency diseases" (scurvy, beriberi, and goitre) because salmon flesh contains a high percentage of iodine, best prophylactic against such diseases. An orchestra played sea songs and chanteys "to carry to listeners a romantic conception, of the salmon industry." There were no references to cats...
...Ambassador to Great Britain, last week delivered the annual Stafford Little lectures at Princeton University.* His subject: "Party Government in the United States." In his first lectures he said: "A little more genuine and widespread effort in the line of strict party service by our so-called 'best citizens' would work a greater revival in this country than all the prayers and preachments of all the reformers." In his second lecture, after mocking at the pretentious, windy, ambiguous pronouncements of the quadrennial party platforms, he said: "Why not at the last session of every Congress preceding an election...
...that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage. The present rate of maternity mortality and the amount of sickness among mothers point to the re-organization of these provisions. Proposals therefore are under consideration for making available, for insured women and the uninsured wives of insured husbands, proper medical and midwifery services during pregnancy and childbirth...
...Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk who thinks he is on a street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest...
Customers. Best U. S. customer is Canada, which buys more goods from the U. S. and sells more to the U. S. than any other country. During 1928, Canada went into first place as best buyer of U. S. goods, passing the United Kingdom. The two together account for about one-third of all U. S. exports. Much of the grain exported to Canada is actually en route to the British Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than...