Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school, with eleven courses in textile technique (one class a week) for Crown workers. Joe's idea was to train workers for the new cost-cutting machines and processes he was constantly installing in his plants. It paid off double; the school became so popular that during the worst of the manpower shortage Joe had more applicants than he could hire...
...most ambitious of the three is the worst. Leave Cancelled is written as the private letter of an English army officer in which he recalls to his wife all the intimate details of their last 24 hours together. It is dreadfully sincere-and dreadfully embarrassing. By writing the story in the first person singular, Monsarrat deprives himself of whatever ironic distance he might otherwise have been able to establish and identifies himself with all the coy, callow and cuddly sentimentalities with which his hero's letter drips. Leave Cancelled leaves the uncomfortable feeling that someone's privacy...
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...
Unless Chase's worst fears are realized, however, the Crimson will not be a pushover. Chase teams rarely are Wally Sears, Dave Key, and Shaw McKean are a potent first line, and Paul Coste and Dick Greeley have worked well on defense. The accoud and third lines are still ragged on teamwork, however, while all three goal guards have blown hot and cold in the games to date...
...Fund and London's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, Premier Schuman's government decided that this hand had to be played alone if necessary because of the fall in exports. The squabble will not help ideas of West European unity along in the face of the worst economic crisis since 1932. But the worst blow will be dealt to the hope that the bank would replace the economic law of the jungle with international cooperation...