Word: deader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the "long route" meant over the fence. "It was almost impossible to hit a ball out of the park in those days," Stuffy muses. "Everything favored the pitchers. The ball was deader than it is today, and the pitchers all chewed tobacco, so that by the eighth or ninth inning the ball was like a chunk of coal...
...failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record and act upon the evidence, the West would be deader than Rienzi...
Price control by OPA was never deader than in the bill which finally reached the Senate floor this week...
...Pennsylvania Stations. Despite the hoarse cries of policemen, crowds of women gathered before stores, office workers went as usual to tall buildings. Many a citizen, numbed at the whole idea, simply stood gaping along the sidewalks. By the time the 18-hour ban was suddenly lifted, Manhattan was deader than Walla Walla, Wash. on a quiet Sunday...
...tanks, oil-resistant hose lines, etc. The rest will be what chemists designate as Buna-S, which has recently given road-test performances up to 130-160% of the best wearing qualities of natural rubber. The emergence of Buna-S almost unquestionably means that natural rubber will be a deader commodity at the end of this war than natural nitrates were at the end of the last.* The estimated cost of the Buna program now ($500 per ton of plant capacity) is only half what it was five months ago, and oilmen confidently believe that...