Word: sharked
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...even the Best People could help tony Evangelist Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman out of his latest difficulty. Plow-nosed, shark-chinned "Dr." Buchman's Oxford Group had run head on into the British Government in the person of blocky, slum-born Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...
...over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
...ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked out by seventh-graders. > An eighth-grade soap sculpture of a peasant tilling his land with a primitive plow. Back of the peasant is a stone wall. A classmate told the sculptor: "They didn't have stone walls...
...convincingly that he draws sympathy even from a Harvard man. Preston Sturges, who wrote and directed the film, supplies enough complications for Eric Blore and Charles Coburn to chalk up some masterpieces of professional gypping. The plot concerns the clash between the wits of a female card shark and the charm of a clumsy ophiologist. Enough said...
...used over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical structure, the scientists found that these alcohols were the same as those found in shark-liver oil over 15 years ago by two Japanese scientists...