Word: fabrice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whole Cloth. Pabst Brewing Co. put on the market a dry-cleaning powder which literally eats stains from clothing. An enzyme, the powder will digest stains made by eggs, milk, chocolate, coffee, beer. One drawback: if used on a synthetic fabric with a protein base, the powder will eat up the cloth. Price of "Exzyme": $4.50 a pound...
...Kremlin into a Balkan Korea. A sign of U.S. backing for Tito was the visit to Belgrade of Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins. The U.S. Mediterranean fleet has just completed joint maneuvers with the British. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, like Tito, broadly hinted that "the fabric of peace" would be rent asunder by World War III if Yugoslavia were attacked...
...Houses. ". . .the House Plan has become a vital core." It should be improved by being even more closely knit into the educational fabric of the College through debate and perhaps adoption of some of the recommendations of the committee on "Advising at Harvard College...
...caustic merchandize, the upper layer of fine plastic has been eroded away, exposing the layer of textiles below. Now this leads to two hateful features: First of all, I object to having ravelings of socks in my food, however sterile they may be. But worse yet, the porous fabric becomes impregnated with organic remains of previous meals, and I suspect the resultant deposits of rotting material, socks and food together, form a fine breeding ground for more than one case...
...rooms without making entrances, she holds her voice within the small, unexciting range of normal people. Although Phyllis Thaxter overplays the "other woman" in more than one scene, the minor characters generally succeed in their primary task: they are good enough to fit smoothly into the film's supporting fabric, rather than interrupting the main theme...