Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graph v. Graft...
...ARTICLE "WALT & WELT" [TIME, MARCH I] BE A LESSON TO THE BUILDING INDUSTRY TO CUT THE WORD "GRAPH" FROM THEIR DICTIONARIES. AMAZING HOW SUCH AN INNOCUOUS LITTLE WORD GOING INTO THE EAR OF A TIME CORRESPONDENT CAN COME OUT in THE HORRIBLE FORM OF "GRAFT." JUST FOR THE RECORD, IT IS OUR BUSINESS GRAPH LINE WHICH HAS BEEN RISING NOT OUR GRAFT...
Instead, the school system became as bad as the town. Schoolkids between classes began joking about the latest graft scandals, and enrollments dropped from 14,000 twelve years ago to 4,200. Two years ago, the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools dropped Hamtramck from its accredited list...
Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
...Pacific Auditorium, Wurdeman, a good man with a racket, spent his share of the fee to join the Westside Tennis Club-and incidentally to get some business from its Hollywood members. Soon Wurdeman & Becket were building actors' homes by the dozen. From then on, as Wurdeman says: "The graft has gone up steadily...