Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salary is now $10,000, and he may get a percentage of the gross take. *Microbiologists would prefer that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...
...designers−to make his product work better, feel better, look better and sell better than those of his rivals. This year U.S. business will spend some $500 million improving the way its products look. Of that sum, Raymond Loewy Associates expects to collect $3,000,000, the biggest gross ever. And Loewy expects that his personal income, which has averaged $200,000 for the past five years, will be boosted also...
...Harvard attendance which has been estimated at close to 100,000 compares favorably to the 23,400 per-game average for 112 schools but is far from the midwestern universities. Michigan is the nation's leader with 291,707 gross for three games...
...statistics on previous elections. Once this group collected its figures, another division of the student group printed them in a newspaper. In their first issue, for instance, was a "Waste Table" showing three or four items on the city books during the past administration which they claimed were a gross and extravagant loss to the city. In another column in the newspaper, the research group pointed out the facts and figures of Maurice J. Tobin's victory over present Mayor James M. Curley...
...William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...