Word: glamoured
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of official policy of avoiding contests where the possibility of success is dim, it is gratifying to salute the two Radcliffe dormitories which have so wisely declined to enter Glamour magazine's contest for America's best dressed college girls...
Percussion, which requested each of the nine dormitories to enter a candidate, will select one girl later this month to represent the College in Glamour magazine's contest for the ten best-dressed college girls in America. Six dormitories have chosen candidates, with Comstock Hall planning to announce its two entries next week...
...describing the contest, Percussion quoted Glamour's ten basic points for a well-dressed girl. Among the qualifications were "good grooming--not just neat, but impeccable," an "appropriate campus look, in line with local customs," and an "appropriate--not rah rah--look for off-campus occasions...
Many companies, dazzled by the glamour of automation, have leaped into it before looking at costs or determining whether they really need to automate. "Some managements," says Automation Expert John Diebold, president of John Diebold & Associates, "are so eager to buy the hardware that they will unconsciously overlook some of their cost figures to prove they need one." They do not realize that preparing for and converting to automation can cost as much as the computer itself. Before leasing a brain at $16,000 a month, Republic National Bank of Dallas had to send ten employees to school...
...difficult to read Schlesinger's account of labor's rise, e.g., the bitter, bloody Teamsters strike in Minneapolis, without reflecting on the monstrous extremes of power which the downtrodden of yesterday have reached. A future historian, not so solid as Schlesinger on the do-gooding glamour of it all. may yet weigh the memorable reforms accomplished by the New Deal against its ominous drive toward the welfare state...