Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long tables in a Manhattan loft building sat half a hundred girls, their deft fingers flying between stacks of folded rotogravure pages, piles of little fabric squares, and pots of paste. All day long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto the printed pages. There were 980,000 cloth samples, called "swatches" by retailers, and cut from 6,000 yd. of material, to be affixed to 469,000 copies of rotogravure with 250 Ib. of paste. When all was finished. 15 trucks carted the 16 tons of paper to the New York...
...from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th centenary of the Crucifixion and Easter marked...
...Lords!" cried he, "properly carried out in the married state, birth control is not only necessary, but is a part of our social fabric. To oppose it is just to beat the air. We can no longer have the large families of Victorian days...
...accept the Fascist doctrine in toto. One may, accordingly, look for the disappearance of Dollfuss's party in the near future; and, I think that it is also extremely likely that Dollfuss himself will soon follow it into oblivion, for the Heimwehr will eventually be absorbed into the larger fabric of Italian or German Fascism, and the little chancellor will then find that he will be no longer needed. Two other causes also make his continuance in power a highly dubious matter. The first is the fact that he has by his actions alienated the sympathy of the rest...
...Manhattan, the Federal Council of Churches issued a "Summons to Spiritual Advance'' signed by heads of 30 Protestant denominations aggregating more than 27,000,000 members. Declaring that "we rejoice in every evidence that great social ideals of Christianity are being woven into the fabric of our national life," the statement urged that "alongside all plans for recovery that are made in our economic and industrial life there should be a nationwide effort for moral and spiritual recovery and advance...