Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parts of the book), Halberstam details how the unscrupulous Harry Chandler in the 1880s hooked and crooked his way to control over subscription lists for L.A.'s three morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...
...Gene Fusions to Study Protein Secretion in E. coll--Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, main lecture hall, Biological Labs...
...once a leader, now a follower. At six seat in the engine room of the boat, Strong has to respond to the new heavies' stroke, Therese Munoz. "The main thing I'm learning now is to pick up Therese's rhythm. I really like her swing. The boat has responded very well. She has a very good sense of rhythm, and I think it's a good change...
Yale had called on Morgan and its main subsidiary. Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., to refrain from making any loans to the South African government...
...their egomanias and foibles. Watson is "markedly bright and never accustomed to hide the fact." Linus Pauling, a fount of chemical wis dom and occasional foolishness, has "un quenchable self-confidence." Biochemist Erwin Chargaff, bypassed by the DNA revolution, is "the man of mordant dissent." But in the main, the author is content to take the role of acolyte, bombarding his gifted tutors with questions, some incisive, others pointedly rhetorical. As Judson plays student to Nobel Laureates Crick and Perutz, so does the reader, who, if patient enough, can gain an understanding and appreciation of the century's most...