Word: ward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reliable. The machine clanked to a dismal crawl. But handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Trevelyan to Acton's old Cambridge professorship. By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs. Humphry Ward, novelist niece of Matthew Arnold), had became famous as a historian himself. Thirteen years later, Winston Churchill made him Master of Trinity College. There he reigns, the "Grand Old Man" of Trinity Lodge...
Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease...
...Ward knew that the wartime textile boom would not last forever. Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds. The shakedown in the textile industry came before Nutter's new fabric was ready. In the first three quarters of Goodall-Sanford's last fiscal year, the company's profits fell 51%; Ward quickly decided on his price-cut to clear out stocks for his new fabric...
...which Everett Nutter's older brother William first wove with mohair in 1906 to produce the original Palm Beach cloth. The new cloth will have just about as much mohair, but the "scratch" will be taken out by wrapping it in rayon and nylon. The mohair core, said Ward, makes the cloth almost wrinkleproof, the rayon makes it cool. With it he hopes to keep ahead of his rayon and worsted competitors with a suit that combines some of the features of both...