Word: fabricate
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TIME, Dec. 22, is wrong in treating lightly, whatever "London newsmen" may say, the matter of Spanish "champagne." The vital question of true and false indications of origin is involved, by implication the copyright and trademark laws, and the whole fabric of international agreements concerning labeling. Without these we would have commercial chaos: "English woolens" from Hackensack, "Scotch whisky" from Illinois, "French perfume" from Mexico, "Florida oranges" from Spain...
...immensely stretching space. The cast moved with the highly stylized, mincing grace of the traditional Chinese theater. The opera's few moments of pure horror, as when the executioner carries in the head of the Prince of Persia in Act I, were so skillfully blended into the fabric of stage movement that they were almost unnoticed...
...feeling of restrained emotion pervades each paragraph; the prose is unpoetical in any obvious sense--you can't scan it--but is yet extremely rich, especially in its combinations of sight and touch. Tension mounts to find release in some sensation such as the feel of soft fabric after a description of a memory exercise...
...their bread and butter. What more and more women want is the kind of high-fashion Vogue patterns long sold by Conde Nast. The originals would cost perhaps $600, but-almost any woman can copy them for the cost of a $3 pattern and $50 worth of fine fabric (Vogue patterns even supply a Paris label...
...Sweat. A chemical textile finish (Cyana) that prevents perspiration odors from contaminating clothing was put on the market by American Cyanamid Co., will appear on Van Heusen's spring-line shirts. Applied to a textile, Cyana causes no change in the fabric's color or feel, remains effective even after 50 washings (unless chlorine bleach is used...