Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best way to prevent cancer, Hueper believes, is to cut out, or at least cut down, the conditions of contact; better yet, use harmless materials instead of those with cancer-producing properties. Some industries have already made a beginning, he noted, but the process could be stepped up by spreading the word on environmental causes of cancer through industrial management and "health agencies, including the medical profession...
...passion that other men lavish on postage stamps and Ming vases. A onetime crime reporter himself, he likes to swap stories with Denver cops, spends his spare hours reading and writing whodunits, calls his reporters "my agents." In 2½ years on the city desk, Lowall has done his best to make Publisher Palmer Hoyt's Post read like an up-to-date version of the old Police Gazette. To charges that he overplays crime, Lowall answers: "No matter how cheap a crime story may be, it is still better than any other type of story...
...Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...
...fraternity dances and Hollywood high-lifers such as Columnist Jimmy Fidler. But the surest sign that they were really arriving was the hushed way the fans listened when the boys sat in with jazzbos like Drummer Zutty Singleton out at the Club 47, a Ventura Boulevard bistro where the best of Hollywood's radio and movie musicians go after work...
Most moth repellents and mothproofing chemicals, says Moncrieff, are expensive, not very successful, and often wash out of the wool eventually. So wool-protecting chemists tried another, more subtle approach. Noting that even the best-adjusted moths can barely digest wool, they tried to make it completely indigestible...