Word: byproducts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
...mysterious steroids from the glandular orchestra are apparently concerned with all the changes in the body's cells. "If you want to know about cancer," says Dobriner, "you must also know about old age, hypertension and degeneration." Thus, cancer research may discover, as a sort of byproduct, what makes people grow...
Mama Says So. Berle's success on television is a curious byproduct of repeated flops in both radio and movies-a special irony for pushy Milton Berle, who has lived his life to feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...fact that TV children's programs are so generally good is regarded by most parents as a happy byproduct. What matters is the revolution caused by TV in pre-bedtime habits. Instead of racing noisily through the house, kids now sit and stare and listen in sober silence. It may or may not be good for the children-but it is certainly a welcome change for mothers & fathers...
...would earn more than $65 a month he must forever do too much in too little time. It is the basic skill of our world, and it is one you learn getting 200 inches of copy downstairs to Art before one o'clock. As a useful byproduct you learn to turn night into day. In the daily working of the CRIMSON office comment books a man acquires the habit of candor, of free-swinging criticism, of speaking his mind: a good thing. Nowhere else in the college is the flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness...