Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northrop was persuaded to go out on the limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...
...popular teachers at Manhattan's Cooper Union and also the Art Students League. What baffles his students is that, unlike their own, Kantor's perennial experiments are usually successful. "It isn't easy, you know," explains Artist Kantor shyly. "Painting is rather like having a love affair...
Keep 'Em Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez...
...Dances haven't been supported," Bradford said, and although Saturday's affair kept dance committee books "in the black," he indicated that many more couples could have been accommodated. As a possible explanation for this apparent apathy to social activities, Bradford suggested that not many Freshmen know girls in the vicinity to bring to the dances...
...Then the affair, after flashing briefly like Isolde's torch, flared out. But Cléo still had her art. After World War I, she retired, gave dancing lessons to the daughters of French aristocracy. In 1938 she returned to the stage to dance a few steps in a show called Revue...