Word: blacken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
What happened started a new business. To Butcher Dubil's surprise the slices did not blacken, but again became a toothsome red. Customers bought them and to his amazement they came back next day for more. William Dubil hard-froze more meat, thawed his thin slices gradually in the display case, but still wondered why they were so tender...
Assuredly the government of the United States has a responsibility towards those who will eventually constitute the nation. If the government permits so stupid a controversy as that over the war-debts to blacken America in the eyes of the world, thus paving the way for possible future strife, it will more than deserve the increasing distrust with which its policies are being watched by American students...
Acquitted. Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, Economics Professor Benjamin Mark Squires, and 15 others; in Chicago after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...
...methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure to explain it to the country were part of a general Administrative attempt to blacken the preceding Republican Administration and thereby make political ammunition for the November elections...