Word: figment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will her income be glamourous. Virtually all statistics in the modeling business are the figment of someone's creative imagination. Best estimates are that only about 50 or 60 of New York's 1,000 photographic models make between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. Among them are two outstanding up & coming fashion models, a sensational, Lauren Bacallish redhead named Kathryn Cassidy, 23, and a sultry Maryland beauty named Jean Patchet, 22. About 75 models make between $8,000 and $10,000 at rates up to $25 an hour. The rest charge from...
...what will hold Israel together? Today fear of the Arabs performs for the Israelis the same unifying function that Gentile persecution and discrimination performed during the Dispersion. The Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
Applegate, a figment of the imaginations of Lloyd M. Ritter '50 and Robert M. Young '49, garnered 90 votes from unsuspecting Freshmen, and the possibility that these votes might have influenced the outcome led several defeated candidates to demand a now election...
...Applegate affair, which nearly resulted in the election of a figment of the imagination to the Freshman Smoker Committee, has implications beyond its obviously humorous aspects. It constitutes a vivid illustration of the election irregularities that can pass unnoticed when the Council employs election procedures that ignore the most elementary precautions necessary to insure a reasonably fair election...
...entity to which Trygve Lie had sworn loyalty was known to the world as the United Nations; no one was quite sure what that meant. Was it a new world, also? Or a legal figment, spinning a web of Whereases and Be it Resolveds between...