Word: cottone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past years, I desire to plant 200 manzanas (346 acres) of cotton of the coming crop...
...shaken clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
Over his head waved a punkah, drawn by a white-clad woman disciple. About his body was a simple cotton loincloth, the thread of which was spun by his own hands. In one hand he held a rag, which he constantly dipped into a bowl of water by his side and wiped over his shiny bald head. About him followers and secretaries knelt crosslegged. Gandhi looked old as wisdom, skeleton-thin, sharp, birdlike; now all his teeth are gone. He seemed in remarkable spirits...
...ones: e.g., with much of the richest soil in the U.S., the Southeast spent 7% of its gross income for commercial fertilizer, almost as much as it spent on education (it bought two-thirds of all the fertilizer used in the nation). Reason: its cash-crop, soil-consuming system (cotton and tobacco). But Dr. Odum impressed Southerners most with another big fact: that the Southeast possessed resources of power, climate, soil and men-if they could be kept from emigrating to other regions-that made it potentially the richest region...
Glimmer for Glamor. Because the clothes of movie actresses are the most widely imitated by U.S. women, the Screen Actors Guild urged more stars to set a thrifty wartime style by dropping glamor for the duration. Actresses were asked to wear cotton, to stick to the standardized WPB silhouettes, to go without hairpins, zippers and metal jewelry...