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Word: featherers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wars and returning in disguise as two gentlemen from Albania lately landed from a balloon, lay siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart's music was kept feather-light and crystal-clean. Soprano Phyllis Curtin and Mezzo Frances Bible were as pretty a brace of slim beauties as ever taunted a gallant; Tenor John Alexander and Baritone Mac Morgan sang warmly as the two gentlemen, who conclude: "Women cannot be faithful . . . You have to take them as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

These provisions will have no real effect unless and until they are written into local contracts. But in the building trades even a start toward folding the feather-beds is revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Folding the Featherbeds | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...hands and heads that stick through the quaint old collars and cuffs are stuffed with straw, there will be no complaints from the fans of fancy-dress fiction. Novelist Seton (Dragonwyck, Katherine) moves among the historic exhibits with the assurance of an attendant waving a feather duster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winthropologist | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...industry. Some 95 plastic or fiber-glass boats were on display, including the 41-ft Bounty II, biggest plastic boat, with a 55-ft. fiber-glass mast, the tallest yet made. Among the other newcomers in Plastic: the 26-ft. Luders-16, day sailer and racer; the 15-ft. Feather Craft runabout; and the 14-ft. Owens Speedship runabout. The new construction not only permitted builders to cut costs,*but also set them off on a color spree of red, yellow and blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Power Afloat | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...either a stroller's gait or a flat-out leap. Hoyle says the control lies in two simple nerve fibers that attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Grasshopper's Hop | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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