Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight economic recession' that drags down one but not costs has thrown today's 1600 American colleges and universities into their worst financial plight in history. Not only do institutions of higher education have less money for their needs today, but they are finding it harder and barder to do anything about...
...this point, you could have gone yourself to refute the decline-of-American-movies theory. But "Peter Ibbetson" should keep you home. It is an adaptation of a DuMaurier novel, set (of course) in the 19th century. It is the worst movie I have ever seen...
...revealed last month that it was pulling its headquarters out of Cambridge in favor of a $6,000,000 Lever House on New York's Park Avenue, many people around Cambridge-thinking of the nation's "slight economic recession"-feared that the city's industrial position had suffered its worst blow in years...
...Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League. Says Bucky: "San Diego is a nice town. The pay is fine. So are the folks. But it's still bush." Although the Senators were not likely to go anywhere (under his management or anybody else's), bossing the worst team in the majors was better than bossing the best in the minors...
...Gaston is so clearly on the side of the angels that his worst enemy is none of those that Novelist Marshall sets up, but Novelist Marshall himself. In To Every Man a Penny, goodness becomes a cloying surfeit, and sentiment runs over into Parisian bathos...