Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year, I nominate the Devil himself, in full regalia. By comparison, no other personality can measure up this year...
...Devil of the year: Adolf Hitler. Assistant devil: John L. Lewis...
...geology's oddest puzzles an odd solution was last week suggested. The puzzle was the origin of "devil's corkscrews," which are fossils six to eight feet high, spiral in shape, with whorls eight inches to three feet in diameter. Buried vertically, they are found in Nebraska's Sioux County in Miocene deposits 15-to 30,000,000 years old. Moreover, fossil beavers have been found in several of the fossil corkscrews, in which microscopic study shows an abundance of petrified plant cells. So two theories arose...
...struggle was between Grace and Lewis. Reporters outside knew well that Purnell and Fairless were inclined to sign with Lewis. But Lewis is Grace's devil, and vice versa. They have a long record of hatred, these two-the smooth, hard-boiled man whose income has averaged about $600,000 a year for 23 years, who was condemned blisteringly by William Howard Taft, a World War 1 chief of the War Labor Board, for wrecking a hard-won labor agreement; and the huge, hard-boiled man who has seldom been down a mine in the last 20 years...
Catch the Wildcat. Best answer to depleted oil reserves is more wildcatters-the devil-may-care independent operators whose only business is finding oil. Last year wildcatters drilled 72% of all new U.S. wells, discovered 75% of all new fields...