Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor or Percentage. Content with his $7,000 salary, Steenbock at first refused to accept royalties on his patents, but the University made him take 15%. Eventually, to the dismay of plain-living Harry Steenbock, this amounted to $50,000-$75,000 a year. The Research Foundation, meanwhile, grew rich beyond its dreams. Wisconsin professors began to produce a bonanza of new inventions; today the Research Foundation owns some 30 patents, including one for the synthetic production of hormones...
This was a great week for John L. Lewis; a bitter hard week for President Roosevelt; and a week of shame, dismay and helpless wrath for the U.S. people...
...Elling's toughest cases was a boy he once discovered jumping onto some porch steps. The coach trained him carefully, but to his dismay the boy failed to show up at his first big meet. Said the boy: "I couldn't bear to appear half naked in front of all those people!'' Von Elling started him jumping before spectators in street clothes, stripped him by easy stages, finally persuaded his prodigy to brave an audience in shorts: whereupon he set a world's record in the standing high jump...
Author Green looks back on his French schooldays with some dismay. The boys studied day & night, at 14 could read Herodotus, find their way through the Hundred Years War, explain Newton's theory of colors. Once a week, for one hour, they exercised with dumbbells and climbed ropes, "fully dressed, of course; the idea of taking off one's clothes to go through exercises would be considered strange and indecent." Seldom, says Author Green, did these children or their teachers "think of the new generation growing up on the other side of the Rhine, sturdy fellows whose bodies...
...himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from the Senate to prevent a necessary quorum. That this absurd burlesque of American government was soon righted with a warrant for their arrest in no way diminishes the Axis delight and Allied dismay it must have inspired. The United States, home of democracy, fighting a war in which democracy struggles to survive, can't function because of a small minority group...