Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returns from lumber mills and yacht clubs in September, it removes the 18 long, slim shells from the racks and rows every day until ice forms on the river. Then the Oriental barn becomes home for both boats and crew, like a nineteenth century factory--producing "oarsmen." Machines upstairs fashion rowing muscles as the crew-men pull on bars which resist their efforts like water opposing the motion of an oar. The crew is polished down-stairs in the "tank," a ramp outfitted with regulation oars and seats, surrounded by water. Each rower pulls an oar through the moving water...
...After all," asked Oscar Wilde more than a half-century ago, "what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months...
...orderly fashion, deflation continued to melt away some of the economy's excess fat. The cost of living had dropped enough by last week to bring pay cuts, ranging from 1? to 3? an hour, for more than 2,000,000 workers, whose escalator contracts are tied to the cost of living. But most workers accepted the cut without protest...
Munro probably won't have his new midfield lineups permanently set until Telfer returns. With the material he has, he can fashion two very good combinations with an average third; the midfield looks to be the strongest part of the team...
...March 9). The President did not mention that two other staunch Liberals, one of them his acting Defense Secretary, Oscar Castelo, were invited to the party but failed to show up. He accused Ambassador Spruance of plotting to sell Stevenson on Nacionalista policies by seating him in such a fashion that Nacionalistas could whisper in both his ears...