Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gross exaggeration of the amount of thought-process behind Mickey's statement to treat it thus logically. For when he entered the clinic, his counsellorial dignity suffered the unspeakable insult of being "greeted in the sharp tones similar to those given by an army officer." The effect on such a sensitive and fine-grained temperament as Mickey's must have been cataclysmic, to judge by the tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless...
Mass production of automobiles has produced "A typical American mass production of head injuries." Thus famed Chicago Surgeon Percival Bailey wrote in an introduction to Diagnosis and Treatment of Head Injuries, by Drs. Sidney William Gross & William Ehrlich (Hoe-ber; $5), published last week. Terse and clear, the handbook tells general practitioners as well as surgeons exactly what to do with the estimated 80,000 banged heads they meet every year. Practical tips: ¶ The human skull, an average of one-fifth of an inch thick, is so elastic that often a heavy blow from a blunt instrument only dents...
...conveyor last week a $30,291 gold-reduction plant (built by Columbia Construction Co.) was nearing completion. The deal: Christ to split the profits, if any, with Columbia after interest, plant and production costs. Oldtimers, recalling that Sacramento is part of the motherlode country, figured that the works might gross some...
...most of its 40 years in the lighting business, Hygrade Sylvania Corp. has lived off scraps from other people's patent tables. It has not been a bad living. Hygrade has missed no dividend since 1921, earned $856,807 on an $11,022,424 gross last year. But last week Hygrade directors began to move out from under the table. Gathered in their Salem, Mass, office, they voted $250,000 (or more if needed) for a new factory. Its product-to-be: fluorescent lighting, in which Hygrade owns basic patents...
...whose works were to be shown in the now current Winthrop House exhibit, I said that some of the men had attained a "more than adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their mediums." I owe those men an apology and plead guilty to self-inflicted charges of gross understatement. The oils, water-colors, and drawings which form the collection reveal more genuine talent than has been sent in any recent exhibit of contemporary...