Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were able to get better acquainted with their teachers than they are now, and have been in some cases unhappy about this. But Dean Kerby-Miller feels that this loss has been compensated for by the fact that the girls have had to learn to study in a different fashion--to organize their work over a longer period of time and a greater range of subject matter...
...while, a tiresome puzzle even to identify the various members of the large and distinguished cast, many of whom possess faces of singular peculiarity. The scenario is not easy to follow, either. This is because the numerous sub-plots have not been integrated and are told in quick episodic fashion which is further aggravated by the slashing of whole scenes from the American version. Film continuity, while not always a prescribed virtue, would have been helpful here because no single character, not even Nicholas, is given enough footage to sustain the interest in the plot. There are many wonderful minor...
...order to function in a workable fashion, the Student Council has split itself into committees of one sort or another--right now there are some 37 such committees. In order to find out what these committees have accomplished, the Council asks each of them to submit a report--almost every weekly Council meeting is devoted to discussion of one or more of such reports. Last December one of these committees--the one on Class Affairs--drew up and offered to the Council a comprehensive and well-thought-out plan for a revised schedule of class activities and organization. After...
...every Big Three conference, had ad ministered lend-lease in London, served as ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain. As Secretary of Commerce, he had dealt with allocations and export licenses; as chairman of the Harriman committee (which took careful measure of the U.S. economy), he had helped fashion ERP. "He is almost the indispensable man," said Hoffman. This week the Senate approved his nomination...
That modern art is a frightful thing is an opinion which many a layman shares-and some artists. William Robinson Leigh is one of them. The trouble began, he thinks, with the Algerian wars (1830-47), which made absinthe a French fashion. Artist Leigh, 81, is not the absinthe type, as Manhattan gallerygoers could see last week. West Virginia-born, he spent the Gay Nineties in the Royal Academy at Munich, mastering-between occasional beers -the realistic painting then in demand...