Word: cinches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mating to Order. Dr. Bissonnette found it a cinch to tamper with nature's timetable.* He put all sorts of creatures in quarters with blinds to exclude the daylight and electric lights to simulate it. To make a species mate to order, he had only to control properly the length of the indoor...
While American Leaguers edged up on the magic 30 games, the National League -which is traditionally famed for classy pitching-hadn't one pitcher who was a cinch...
Last month "Vanport Center College" opened for business in the half-deserted city's junior high school. Ideaman Epler had talked 17 vacationing Oregon professors into teaching the first session. It was a cinch to sign up 221 students, all but 14 of them veterans. In Vanport City, the students and their families found cheap apartments ($30 to $47.50 a month), nursery schools, stores, theaters, a hospital and library...
...Cinch. In Bay City, Mich., Peter Pipe took over as president of the Master Plumbers' Association...
...Merriam Webster's International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...