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Word: fashioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message said that Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, commander of the U.S. air forces in the invasion, had arrived at his station. It also said that he had arrived in a fashion he approved. He had just had a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Job for Jimmy | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge the fore-&-aft trim of the ship in precisely the same fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shortcut to GM | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Granted there are few women copy readers. An intelligent person would take them from women familiar with a newspaper set up. . . . Why doesn't he hire newswomen who do know that style is something besides what is talked about in a fashion magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Pastel shades are the latest fashion for factory machines. After a year's experience with painting machinery in contrasting shades, paint-making Du Pont claims that "without exception users report increases in production (as much as 15% in many cases), with greater operating efficiency, less fatigue, fewer accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light from Paint | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Loop. Unlike most specialists in swinging the classics, Dorothy begins by playing her classics as straight as any Town Hall pianist. When she has polished off Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Schubert's Serenade or a batch of Chopin Nocturnes in the most acceptable highbrow fashion, Dorothy shuts her eyes. Her feet begin to pound the floor. Her face contorts as if she were in agony. What comes after that is pure Donegan. It has Elmer's customers shagging in their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hazel's Rival? | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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