Word: close
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same stub as a regular, much less than a regular if smoked only for 1⅞ inches, the usual length of a smoke for regulars. Convinced that the trouble comes in the last few puffs,* the tobacco monopoly took ads to warn, "Don't get too close," printed two thin rings on its king sizes at 1⅞ inches to show where the cigarette should be stubbed out. But Swedish smokers cynically saw the campaign as a means of selling more cigarettes, puffed right on past the new warning rings...
Nothing could look less like stripped-down Bauhaus architecture than Gropius' exuberant plans for Baghdad. The university, divided into colleges, is gathered in clusters of air-conditioned buildings, set close together to provide shade in the blistering 120° summer heat. Concrete shells will cover the combined theater auditorium and mosque. Water from the nearby Tigris will splash in garden courts...
...Explorer Minsky's standards are high ("Her limbs," he says of the ideal stripper, "must be tapered rose stems, and her ankles sufficiently narrow so that an ordinary man's hand can completely close around them"), and Harold was disillusioned by what he found. "The girls just aren't as pretty as I'd expected. I don't know whether it was what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there...
HOME-BUILDING BOOM will continue during second half of 1959, may be equal to or better than first half when private housing starts ran at annual rate of close to 1,400,000. For first five months of this year, private-housing starts totaled...
...lulled by a dream about a "sacred mission," Fred ran away and joined the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) at Valley Falls, R.I. The good fathers viewed the novice with some alarm. The boy already stood 6 ft. tall, weighed close to 200 Ibs., and the way he piled through a plate of turnips suggested strongly that he was riot meant to mortify the flesh. After two years the abbot gently told...