Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock and all civilian and V-12 students are invited. The usual non-alcoholic beverages will be served but far more important is the chance that here at last, after almost two weeks of utter stagnation, is your chance to gaze upon the flower of American womanhood and perhaps form the acquaintance of a life time...
...central altar goes back to early Christian times, was common up to the 9th Century. Today most churches do not have them. Some exceptions: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich...
Manhattan importers were six months, behind with their orders. Porcelain fanciers, in an invisible but impatient queue, waited last week for their ceramic birds, which they bought as fast as they could be imported from Britain. The superbly color-glazed, life-sized birds, perched in natural flower and branch settings, cost from $250 to $475 a pair...
...single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they must be painstakingly pre-sized. Because thin, delicate clay shapes (such as flower petals) can stand less heat than heavier parts, porcelain models as variable as the Doughty birds are baked by a complicated shifting of heavy and light parts to higher and lower temperatures...
Following is a tentative schedule of graduation agenda of the Junior class--10-43-NTS Harvard. Class flower: spinach; class motto; Horas omnes reported Most likely to succeed: Admiral King; most handsome: Lt. (jg) Robert Taylor; Best duty: Betty Grable (howinhell did that get in here...