Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shock-haired youth named John J. (for Jay) McCloy, then just out of Amherst, later was to spend ten years of his life proving that the rumors were true, and hanging the Black Tom guilt on the German government. He learned the worst of the Germans as he threaded his way through a maze of false leads up & down Europe; he learned of German deceit and arrogance and violence that had led to one world calamity and was to lead to another...
...through the pages of a prayerbook, and tickling her sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth's dress was to have a train and hers none, she raised such an unholy uproar that the King himself called in the dressmaker and ordered trains for both girls' dresses...
From the beginning he ruled out lecturing-a spoon-feeding system of teaching, he thought, which "was probably the worst scheme ever devised for imparting knowledge." The "quiz or recitation system," thought Holt, was little better. His own prescription: instead of ordinary classes, constant informal conferences, at which teachers and students could think and talk together...
That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
Before the opening day was over, a flood of selling orders (1,236,840 shares) struck the already ailing market its worst blow of the year. Out of 1,084 issues traded, 877 went down, breaking anywhere from ⅛ to 5 points. U.S. Steel sank to its lowest price in two years. The Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks broke 3.17 points. Next day it went on down to 166.53, the lowest since March...