Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Magenta had an easier time of it than its successors, however, since it appeared only fortnightly and could concentrate on perfection and literary merit rather than spot news. During this time the paper was assembled in leisurly fashion after a meeting of editors in the President's room, where the efforts of the board were revised by two members and then shuttled off to a printing company in Boston...
...paper was still virtually home less, occupying a single room in the Lyceum building and publishing, according to a former editor, "in a happy-go-lucky fashion where at least at much time was devoted to punches and jolly fellowship as to work." But by the end of the eighties a sterner spirit had overtaken the board, and the social and alcoholic functions were abandoned in favor of more serous and better organized journalistic effort...
...make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct fashion. It remains to be proved, however, that the Army's objectives are identical with those of our institutions of higher learning. ... It has been said that a speaking knowledge is the most important aspect of a foreign language for university students. As far as I know, no proof of this...
Zhukov's timing was neat, for January is the show month of spring fashions in Moscow. Last week, in Moscow's white-silk-walled, many-mirrored House of Fashion, the newest creations of Russian designers were shown (see cut). The styles displayed proved that, barring an unlikely revolt by Soviet women, Soviet skirts would stay knee-short...
There was also fashion news for the Russian male. One Dmitry F. Shisheyev, purported "factory engineer," turned up on the Moscow radio as a commentator on U.S. wages. Said Shisheyev: "The American worker is too poor to afford a woolen suit...