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Word: fades (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were exceptions, of course, but he charged the textile industry with profiteering on poor quality goods. His bill of particulars: polo shirts and quilts with "nonwashable sewing threads"; printed dress fabrics that "not only cannot withstand perspiration . . . but cannot even withstand water without staining"; women's woolens that fade in sunlight; taffeta and moire finishes "that disappear when wet"; "socalled washable fabrics [that] shrink 6, 7 and 8%"; raincoats that shrink in the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill of Particulars | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Like Icarus, Matisse has flown close to the sun; his most recent pictures are so richly dazzling that beside them such bold 19th Century colorists as Renoir and Van Gogh fade to dimness. And like Icarus, Henri Matisse has not much time. Sitting up in bed, the old man puts importunate visitors off with a serene apology: "I'm very busy," he murmurs, "packing my bags for the next world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty & the Beast | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

When the northbound traveler invades the six million square miles of the Arctic Circle, he soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out in the Cold | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Coffee to a smell did fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Little King | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...least the fans did not fade with the gridders and the northward poles. Employing the phalanx principle first unveiled by a Macedonian scatback named Alex in a crucial intersectional away game on Turkish Turf, the local partisans were dedicated to the proposition: "they shall not pass...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Enemy Drive Fails to Score Against Post-Rutgers Foolproof Phalanxes | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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