Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bordeaux University's Professor Jean Ribérau-Gayon contributed such items as: "The richness of the grape in vitamins of group B has not been stressed sufficiently. Commercial wine is considerably richer in vitamins than commercial grape juice of the same vintage." (Bordeaux happens to be synonymous with claret and sauterne.) Another Bordeaux University professor, Jacques Masquelier, got carried away with the results of some sophomoric experiments. He concluded that claret is on a par with penicillin as a germ killer, hinted that it might be better because it slaughters staphylococci, many strains of which are now resistant...
...wife is quite willing to work just as hard as before, but she wants to be treated like a human being." Girls are no longer sold to textile factories by their parents-now the factories try to lure them by "guaranteeing a husband before you are 30." In the richer farm areas, many households are installing modern kitchens, bathroom plumbing and washing machines that are ending centuries of drudgery...
When it comes to making or buying news, few newspapers can match London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138,570) for flamboyance and vanity. Last week, in two swollen self-promotions, the Mail treated its readers to two old-fashioned personalized adventure serials that were even richer than the standard fare in the British press's war for circulation...
...Curzon line, which they had grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former German territory, including coal deposits richer than those of the Ruhr...
...Susskind wanted to know why the writers had given up. Why not stay in the medium that produced Chayevsky's Marty and Arthur's A Man Is Ten Feet Tall? Their answer: because writing for stage or screen makes a man 20 feet tall-and a lot richer...