Word: dovetail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine climate and mountain-valley site, the college pays excellent salaries and offers new faculty members the chance to spend part of their first year doing nothing but planning courses. Large areas of the new college's curriculum are still not mapped in detail, and professors meet to dovetail their separate requirements at beer-and-sandwich klatches...
...molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which dovetail into stacks for storage, that today makes him a modern bestseller and last week earned him the American Institute of Architects' Craftsmanship Medal...
...Dovetail. Green River, which makes semifinished steel, neatly dovetails with Jessop's finishing plant. Last week, aswarm with plans for his new acquisition, which he will operate as a separate company, Frank Rackley was sure that by putting $3,500,000 into Green River's new plant that failed, his old plant that succeeded can make Green River start earning at least $2,000,000 a year after the new facilities are in operation. "The foundation is there," said he, "to make Green River one of the finest quality plants in the country...
Under this idea, there might be a free market all over Europe for Volkswagens, Jaguars and Fiats, while all nations outside the nucleus of the Six kept trade barriers on many other products. Thus both schemes could dovetail...
...pacing one's words and gestures to make them clear, but also establishing a rhythmic rapport with the audience. A theater audience is an unwieldy mass, and men who can control its feelings as a fly fisherman controls a trout are rare indeed. Rex is still working to dovetail his acting with the reactions of the audience, changes something in every performance. "The writer or director may not think the show has improved since it opened," he says. "From an acting point of view I believe it has, and will...