Word: buff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessarily, or even often, the same. There is a false emphasis on '"type" (show-ring points) and pedigree. High milk production is an inherited capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their herds they buy champion bulls which have convinced judges on some 25 show-ring points. The result is that unbiased experts no longer claim that cows registered, in herd...
...second: "Is he endorsed by his local Democratic organization?'' If the job hunter's credentials are satisfactory, Mr. Hurja gives him a recommendation for the job written on a white slip of paper. If his credentials are better than satisfactory his recommendation is on buff paper. If his claim to a job is superlative his recommendation is written on blue paper. Officials who hand out jobs know what the colors mean and act accordingly...
...deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...
...coordinated by famed Explorer Vilbrmir Stefansson, Pan American consultant, who advocated commercial arctic flying ten years ago. The coordinated data are analyzed by Chief Engineer Priester who knows about ships, men and operations; by Communications Engineer Leuteritz who knows about radio and navigation. Finally it goes to a spacious, buff-papered office on the 58th floor from which French doors open upon a balcony overlooking downtown Manhattan and the harbor. At a table in the far corner of the room, with his back to an old roll-topped desk-his first piece of office furniture-sits the shy, swarthy young...
...artists in that exhibition are now represented in the present exhibition, Lucien Pissaro, with a portrait of his father, Camille, a gift of H. S. Bowers '00, and William Nicholson with a decorative print, "Horse Race." Nicholson in this cut shows a daring use of solid blacks offset with buff and touches of other colors...