Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell...
...Part of the 'racket'... is to concoct and patent one or more solutions. . . . None of these solutions can be considered useful. Ordinary tap water or physiologic solution of sodium chloride at body temperature is probably more satisfactory...
When the House and Senate conferees sat down to concoct a final draft of the Revenue Act of 1935, they found little to choose in the matter of revenue raising. The House bill was estimated to yield $255,000,000; the Senate bill $254,000,000. Compromising on most features, but junking completely the House's inheritance tax and the Senate's Borah and McCarran amendments, the conferees early this week reached agreements on a bill expected to enrich the Treasury by $250,000,000. Boosted sharply were individual income surtaxes, beginning...
Every bonus bill has to be concocted by a mathematical expert who can make it look cheap to taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found...
...whose enthusiasm for pure learning is too weak to call forth his best efforts may develop something approaching a real intellectual passion if the things he studies in from undergraduates. Festering in their cocoons of red tape, the magnifies of the Bursar's Office have managed to concoct a truly astounding college seem of real consequence and bearing on the problems of the day. Any college which fails to take advantage of this opportunity of arousing the interest of its students is doing less than society has a right to expect...