Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineteen showgirls en route to Miami, Fla. from Manhattan by train, donned scanty bathing suits, covered themselves and the suits with war stamps. In nine minutes flat, passengers had peeled off and paid for all the stamps (see cut). Value: $500. In Los Angeles a model named Judith Gibson appeared on the I. Magnin department store steps in a strapless suit made of stamps, cheerfully sold bonds to four men, all fully clothed...
...history of publishing only one other magazine has ever reached even 300,000 circulation-at $5.00 a year-and it certainly would have cheered TIME'S founders as they watched TIME'S first copies slowly peeling off a little flat bed press back in 1923 if they had had any assurance that TIME'S circulation would ever reach even...
Pepe's Kill. Handsome in his olive vestido de corte, his sideburns shadowed by his flat-crowned sombrero, José Maria proved himself a good novillero. His verónicas were trim and clean-cut. He bravely ventured a few faroles, swirling his cape overhead in the pass. Greatest applause and the bull's ear went to a comedian, who arduously dispatched a bull calf with toothpick horns to the accompaniment of a conga. The greatest burst of catcalls and jeers rose at the eviction of a teenage boy who leaped the arena fence and had beginner...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...
...shoppers, by & large, take price control for granted. Few flat-heeled snoopers have appeared to plague retailers as expected. In food stores housewives do scan the posted ceilings. But few people look over the elaborate listings in drug and department stores. Such quiet acceptance by the public is the best indication that ceilings are working...