Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside details of the mud dauber's life cycle. One of the most striking was the insect's built-in sanitary facilities. Each egg is laid in a separate mud cell, along with perhaps a dozen spiders which have been paralyzed by the mother wasp's sting. After the larva hatches from the egg, it begins to eat the spiders...
Cost of Dying. In Los Angeles, where death has an unusually competitive sting, Utter-McKinley Mortuaries mailed out certificates entitling the bearer to a $20 discount on funeral services...
Death has no sting for 73-year-old Sculptor Carl Milles...
...Individual taxpayers would find the new schedules as hard to understand as ever, but not at all difficult to take; there was something for everybody. Lifting of personal exemptions from $500 to $600 (and an extra $600 for those 65 or over) would take all or much of the sting out of the income tax for low-income families. For 7,400,000 lower-bracket families (up to $2,000 net income) it meant no more income tax at all. For about 55 of every 100 taxpayers-those with more than $2,000 but less than $5,000 net income...
Somewhere between the balm of a "courageous attempt" and the sting of a painful and wearisome failure lies the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production for 1947. That it is brave to attempt the resurrection of a mouldering and awkward work by Henrik Ibsen can hardly be denied; the question is whether sufficient resources lie behind the bravado to justify the effort...