Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...
...revamped tribe of Dartmouth Indians will do its inhospitable best tonight to spoil the Varsity basketball team's annual hegira to the hills of Hanover, where the teams meet in an Ivy League contest...
...very first book. Title: Koussevitzky. Author: ex-Boston Music Critic Moses Smith. The maestro sued to stop publication. The book, he complained, "describes me as ... incompetent . . . brutal ... a poseur . . . attacks my integrity . . . impugns my loyalty and slanders a lifetime of work." Besides, complained the maestro, it might spoil the sale of a literary project of his own: the Koussevitzky autobiography...
...part," Miss Chapin commented. "As the only man in the play it's more or less up to him to discover the murder and ... but I don't want to spoil the ending," she hedged...
...American Guild of Musical Artists, said it was no go: Scotto would have to stick by his contract and post two weeks' salary before the 40-odd people in the U.S. chorus, all A.G.M.A. members, could participate. Sputtered Impresario Scotto: "It is to be ashamed . . . to spoil an opera season like this...