Word: buttresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to be a shock." But what warning does she give "Husband: see also men," who stands with "hands, shaking from nervousness"? Well may Lilly stand, as your picture shows, with her right hand supporting "bulges in the wrong places," etc. I suggest she read her book and buttress the sags...
...Buttress the Sags. Assuming that no is the answer to this last question, Lilly devotes most of the rest of Glamour Book to seeing what can be salvaged from the poor wreck...
...iconography. And he took fresh architectural gambles. The ceiling of Notre-Dame rises higher (107 feet) than any other cathedral then built, because Bishop Sully trusted the strength of the relatively untested ribbed vault; Sully's second master builder was one of the first to develop the flying buttress...
FARM INCOMES will be boosted and surplus products cut back, if Agriculture Secretary Benson can persuade Congress to okay a mammoth new crop-control program that may cost as much as $500 million a year. Benson wants to buttress present flexible price supports by paying farmers $10 to $12 an acre yearly to grow grass, cover crops and trees on their land, thus cut down on overall farm output by taking 40 million acres out of food production...
Short or Long. To buttress his arguments-that a live virus is better and confers longer immunity-Researcher Sabin went to the Eskimos. In one of their isolated communities immunity against polio was shown to have endured for 40 years after the last previous encounter with the virus. Use of the short-term killed vaccine, argues Sabin, might leave U.S. parents with the necessity of having their children reinoculated every year...