Word: surer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitutes. Mandragora is gone. But the drowsy syrups, and more recently tablets and capsules, have multiplied enormously. By far the most abundantly used and misused are the barbiturates. They come under a hundred names. New, synthetic hypnotics are claimed by their makers to be safer and in some cases surer...
...world business, politics and science. It recently insured the on-time opening of the New York World's Fair next April. In February, Canada's missilemen scrubbed a scheduled launch just before countdown until liability coverage could be placed with Lloyd's - the only in surer that would touch it. "But we exercise our ruthlessness and choose only those risks we feel are insurable," says one Lloyd's underwriter. World War II was partly insurable for Lloyd's, which sold monthly policies against death or dismemberment caused by buzz bombs after calculating the odds...
Having devoted a lifetime to the study of narcotic drugs, Dr. Eddy has attained a fuller and surer understanding of their nature than any other living...
...there is Polaroid, whose convenient "instant" photographs have caused something of a revolution in the camera industry. Dr. Edwin Land offered to sell his picture-in-a-minute system to Kodak in 1946, but Kodak's deliberative managers figured that the company was already too busy with seemingly surer projects, thought Land's camera would not click. Another sore subject is competition from those precise, lower-wage foreign camera makers who have won over so many camera buffs. Even though any widening of the camera market only helps to sell high-profit Kodak film-which accounts for almost...
Perhaps the situation would automatically improve if all lecturers stopped regarding the lecture as a means of vast quantities of information perhaps an even surer improvement would be to prohibit note-taking in lectures, for then the student would to follow the lecture closely so could jot down the important points , yet he would not get so wound up in voluminous note-taking that too busy to really listen...