Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complex minuteness of even the smallest portal-to-portal suit is indicated by Judge Picard's opinion in the progenitor of all such suits--the Mount Clemens Pottery Company case. He quotes as an indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take...
Harvardmen of less recent vintage would have found the product less strange for the Crimson of April and May '46 has maintained, with the exception of a change in type face here and there, a remarkable resemblance to its rambling, liberal-minded, earnest--but not humorless--pre-war progenitor...
Over them all hovered the spirit of Hambletonian, progenitor of champions. Never a flashy winner, Hambletonian (1849-76) broke no records. But his blazing spirit and his success as a sire made him a harness immortal. Ninety-five per cent of top trotters today trace their blood to him through at least one line. Standard breds, from Hambletonian down, are still the only purely U.S. contribution to the sporting horse, and to a sport where age as well as youth is served...
...have had a field-day in comparing the so-called "well-made" play with the so-called "mood" play. Champion of the former group is Lillian Hellman, whose melodramatic hits, including "Watch on the Rhine" which opened here last night, are taut, compact plays, carefully plotted and manipulated. Prime progenitor of the "mood" plays is, of course, William Saroyan...
...blood. He is a member of one of Japan's five oldest families. He is in fact descended from a god who sat in on the Heavenly Conference summoned by the Sun Goddess before she sent messengers down to create the Japanese Islands. His first human progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last...