Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warned to be on the lookout for a "Herbert R. Gross," one Square bookstore gave a description of the crook last Friday when he presented an authorization using the false name. "Gross," who is presumed to be a student, apparently sensed a trap and left the store before he could be apprehended...
...Beefy Wagnerian gods . . . snorted and bellowed"; "the Met's soggy chorus would need a shot in the arm"; ". . . stable of posturing actors-make opera more gross than grand"; and to be final, "the stylizing makes more for convenience than conviction" [TIME...
...housewives and widows third (16%). (Although Merrill Lynch did not specify, probably much less than 19% of its total business came from wage earners.) Merrill Lynch did not know whether or not its customers had made money. But Merrill Lynch had not done too well itself in 1947. Gross income of $22,377,582 was 24% under 1946; Net income before taxes was $1,827,952, down...
Antagonism directed against the current anti-vivisection campaign continued to mount-in Medical School circles yesterday, as Doctors Eliot P. Joslin '94, Franc D. Ingraham '21, and Robert E. Gross '31 pointed out that promising experiments on heart diseases, ulcers, and cancer would be halted if the Nolan-Miles Bill were not passed...
Having doubts that even "ill-prepared" is the correct word to describe the high school graduate, the report outlines the following conditions: "Spelling is often as chaotic as to seriously impede communication; logical thinking is materially limited; and grammer and its usage show gross ignorance...