Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major private testing services disagree on the effectiveness of presoaks. Consumer Reports concluded that Biz and Axion did little better than regular detergents in removing many stains, but Consumer Bulletin found that the new products "can surely help turn out a brighter, whiter wash." To sift the various claims, the housewife would need the advice of a chemist. In any case, the onslaught of enzymes, by adding still another step-and another product-to the laundry process, makes her washday chores both longer and costlier...
...Miss Frame scrambled her characters and their actions with comparable imaginativeness, this would be a much better novel-or, as Godfrey might have put it, a chum berett loven...
Novice Wolfeans are better advised to start with Kings Full of Aces, published simultaneously with Baring-Gould's "biography." It brings together three of the better Wolfe books from among the 43 that have been published since 1933. In Too Many Cooks (1938), Wolfe is guest of honor at a meeting of top international chefs, one of whom, naturally, gets murdered. Wolfe manages to trap the culprit while discoursing on U.S. haute cuisine and recounting such favorite recipes as sauce printemps and shad roe mousse Pocohontas. Plot It Yourself (1959) offers a revealing satire of the publishing industry...
Romney M. Moseley D-'71, spokesman for the black students, said the meeting was "the best thing that ever happened to the Harvard Divinity School." He said he was pleased that the committee members had come to a better understanding of the black viewpoint because of the meeting. The original report will be submitted to the Divinity School faculty tomorrow...
...play the piano, you don't have new boots, you don't get A's on your papers, you don't have four dates in a day. But you are a Cliffie and you have a synthetic mind and you fuse all these friends into one Other who does better and has more. It's a rat race, but the rats are on a treadmill and the cheese is imaginary...