Word: vermiform
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that very day, said Reader Benardete, she had found "its" and "it's" hopelessly mixed up in an advertisement in the Times. The apostrophe, she hinted, is about as useful as the vermiform appendix...
...Byrnes promised that virtually all of the shackles would be dropped from business when Germany quit on V-E day. The momentum of war production in 1944 would practically be enough to win the war against Japan. And WPB, which controlled the U.S. industrial economy, would shrivel to a vermiform appendix, which the end of the Jap war would snip...
...staff of 100 are Germans, French, Italians and other nationals. In his leisure time he studies the life habits of seabirds. He hopes that the bank will be important after the war. But while the B.I.S. may somehow survive the war, its future is probably that of a vermiform appendix which may have to be removed...
Said Dr. Nixon: "The vermiform appendix ... is a small tubelike growth which projects from the large intestine near the spot where the large and small intestines meet. The appendix is from a quarter to a half-inch thick, and from three to four inches long. All but the last inch or so ... is usually attached to the colon so that it must be carefully removed...