Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes the hide of one whole calf to make each head, and several years of seasoning are necessary to make the drum playable. In twenty years the monster percussion instrument has become practically the band's trademark so, though the high cost of transportation is prohibitive--always over $100--it is usually carried to all nearby games as well as Soldier's Field...
...Board of Education and New York City's us per student of schools have promised that proof of subversives must be decussated and that whispers will not do. But New York State has conjured up a monster of a system, which can work wonders on its own. If by some chance this system is found constitutional, New Yorkers should speak softly to their kids and tell them there are lessons it were better not to learn...
Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II. So the department encouraged domestic production by pegging the price of flaxseed at $6 a bushel. The encouraged farmers raised so much flaxseed that the market collapsed. CCC loss to date on flaxseed and linseed oil: $73 million...
...centuries, translators in more than 100 languages have proved how right the old knight was. English translations of Don Quixote have either been pieced together by literary archeologists who treat each word as a rare old bone, and with admirable patience assemble them into a dead monster; or have been cribbed by publishers' hacks from French translations, with an eye on the dictionary and an ear to the gallery...
...studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went to 31-year-old Chet Engle for his satirical self-portrait Tarquin. First prize...