Word: fasteners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attempting to prevent baby confusion, maternity hospitals write the baby's family name on a piece of adhesive tape and fix it to the infant's body; or fasten a string of lettered beads or stamped metal tag to the child's neck and mother's wrist; or both. Registering a newborn's foot prints is not very reliable, because foot prints are not distinctive for some time after birth. Newborn children clench their fists so tightly that finger prints cannot be made. Dr. Kegel last week suggested a novel idea: stencil the infant's foot in suntan from...
...lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
...life itself seems to be. A Midwestern youth who wants to be an architect takes his greatest satisfaction in the fact that he is free, that he may defy his drab background, and do as he pleases in becoming great. Then, one moonlit night, a girl's arms fasten him, innocently, generously, but so tightly that he can never escape. He tries, of course, but finds that his ambition has been diluted by emotion. He settles down in the environment he hates, trapped, but sure that he will not vegetate as all the others have done before...
...Land"' is meant the strongly Democratic northern counties of New Jersey, dominated by the Hudson County machine of Boss-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. A typical complication of the election was seen last week in Hudson and Essex Counties. N. J. Republicans had been 'trying to fasten shame on Boss Hague. They obtained a new election law and challenged some 40,000 names on the heavy registration .'lists', as illegal. The Democrats retaliated -by charging that in Atlantic City, a Re publican stronghold. 2,370 names were il legally registered, including names of dogs, cats...