Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better Than the Worst...
...true that all of this year's new issues are not Rembrandts . . . but I still feel that the general run of U.S. stamps is far superior to the general run of stamps of any foreign country for beauty and design. Our worst are far better than their worst; our best are far better than their best...
...Spring, when the names and correspondence of next year's new men are submitted to his office, he is faced with the task of assigning the men to rooms, selecting proctor for the Yard, and accruing 120 freshman advisers in the various fields. When that is done, then the worst is behind him, and he and his staff can settle down to the more routine job of Committee meetings and trouble shooting for the Freshmen...
...most famous Gould stunt has been the eight-year-old How America Lives series, in which the Journal not only reports on "typical" families in vast detail, but also fixes up their kitchens, their budgets (which never mention anything spent for liquor) or their personalities-whichever is in worst repair. They like to say that their readers are a jump ahead of them; the fact is that the Journal is out to educate women just as fast as it can, while rattling many a social skeleton in public...
...centerfielder of the New York Yankees had the worst charley horse he could remember. He wore a thick bandage over his left thigh (to support the strained muscles) and a second bandage around his middle to hold up the first one. Said Joseph Paul DiMaggio, more in simple fact than in complaint: "I feel like a mummy...