Word: font
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complicated one as this. The discussion finally wound up in a bet. If there were no errors in the Greenewalt cover story, he was to pay Liz $5; for each error, Liz was to pay him $1. Says she: "I had to send him $1. I got Pierre du Font's age wrong...
...editorial page, called among other things, a font of ideas, offers its members a chance to carp when carping is necessary, and applaud when things around the College go well...
...euthanasia to the Kinsey Report. One of its priests recently outlined Farm Street's function as "presenting the Catholic religion in modern terms to the intelligentsia of the day and answering any attacks made upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members of the Jesuit Order in England, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia and British Guiana, 2) publishing (under Father Philip Caraman) a highbrow monthly called The Month...
Skidless Shine. A tough, nonslippery floor wax is being test-marketed by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For use on both hardwood and linoleums, the Safety Floor Wax contains tiny, gripping particles of Du Font's Ludox (colloidal silica) which snub the forward motion of a shoe hitting the shiny floor, bring it to a safe and sure-footed stop.. Price: $1.29 a quart...
...going out of the "miracle" synthetic fibers, particularly those which are supposed to resemble wool. Sales of Acrilan are so slow that Chemstrand Corp. has cut output at its new $30 million Decatur (Ala.) plant to 17% of capacity, laid off all but a handful of workers. Du Font's Orion is not selling well either for use in worsted fabrics. Weavers, disillusioned about the extravagant billings of man-made fibers, are cutting their orders...