Word: deviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edwin Joseph Cohn, 51, has headed Harvard's Department of Physical Chemistry since it began (1920). He refuses to talk about himself, talks about his laboratory only in scientific journals in abstruse articles on the devious ways of blood. From the beginning, the laboratory's work has been too deep for most laymen, as near pure science as work on flesh & blood can be. In 1940 the National Research Council picked Dr. Cohn to find out whether beef plasma could substitute for human plasma in wartime transfusions. So far the answer is no, but in turning beef blood...
...round in the devious battle of metals when Turkey suddenly agreed to cut off chrome shipments to Germany. This decision may help in the war on SKF: Sweden also gets its chrome in Turkey, shipped overland via Germany, and without it most bearings cannot be made...
...raiders were frankly imitating R.A.F. tactics: swinging in over the city by devious routes; concentrating on short, sharp attacks; using the twisting, turning, climbing and dipping maneuvers that airmen call "jinking." They dropped incendiary bombs of all types, some carrying additional explosive charges; they hit buildings, blew out windows, started fires, caused casualties...
...story of "Mexican Hayride," the new musical currently at the Shubert, is the story of Chicago's theatre-born Mike Todd, who took a jaded Broadway by storm a little over a year and a half ago with the lavish and ribaid "Star and Garter." Wise in the devious ways of show biz, Mike, since then, has offered a war-weary public escapism with a capital...
...lighten the sentence, but cannot increase it. This week Lieut. Colonel Charles G. White, Colonel Colman's former executive officer at Selfridge, was on trial charged with drunkenness and illegal transfer of men, before an entirely new court. The Detroit Times wondered acidly whether this was "a devious apology...