Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refer to our work on the growth of the tubercle bacillus as "the greatest contribution to TB research since Robert Koch first isolated the germ itself in 1882" is, to say the least, a gross exaggeration. There have been many great achievements in the field of tuberculosis since the time of Koch. Thus, the therapeutic possibilities of sulfones and streptomycin, as well as the studies of immunization with BCG, are discussed in the very same issue of your magazine; you could also have mentioned, among other lines of progress, the improvement of X-ray methods of diagnosis, the campaign...
Figuring out what they do want has become a test-tube science. A bustling organization called Audience Research, Inc. now makes a profitable career of it. A.R.I., one of Pollster George Gallup's far-flung enterprises, is prepared to tell a movie manufacturer what he can expect to gross, within 10%, from an unreleased picture...
...latest to tell the story of the pasty, jowly face, the gross, purplish lips, the great wit, great charm and great downfall is British Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Conan Doyle, G.B.S., etc.). "In January 1943 I mentioned to Bernard Shaw," Pearson explains, "that I wished to write a Life of Oscar Wilde." Shaw replied, "My advice is, very decidedly, Don't. . . . There is nothing more to be said." But Pearson went ahead anyhow, having long been interested in the complexities of Wilde's character. Although he had never seen him in the flesh, he knew and had talked...
Before he even took a screen test, Smoky was signed to a seven-year acting contract at a beginning salary of $300 a week. Actor MacMurray's gross earnings for the year 1944, reported fortnight ago by the U.S. Treasury...
Says Waugh: "It was an age replete with examples of astounding physical courage. Judged by the exploits of the great adventurers of his time, the sea dogs and explorers, Campion's brief achievement may appear modest enough; but these were tough men, ruthlessly hardened by upbringing, gross in their recreations. Campion stands out from even his most gallant and chivalrous contemporaries . ._. by the supernatural grace that...