Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctant to hide her light under a bushel of style traditions, trim-bodied Cinemactress Paulette Goddard tried to set a new Hollywood style by turning up for a formal dinner date in "evening shorts." They were formalized by sequins and a decorous cape...
After their hitting splurge against the Tigers which netted one homer, three triples, and two doubles it appears that the Crimson batsmen have finally got their eye on the horse hide and have ended their batting slump which was the source of much of the team's weak showing in the earlier skirmishes...
...immediate solution of anything, Union Now is satisfactory only to the interventionists. Its wider adoption will have to await the disposition of the more immediate question of war and peace. To hide that fact is to play a shell-game with the American people...
...vegetables, grapefruit) have to be moved in a hurry or wither under the hot sun, truckers tried to get by with overloads. But only one highway leads out of the Valley, and weight inspectors had little trouble catching them. In 1939's spring shipping season, this game of hide-&-seek nearly turned into a battle. The inspectors threw up a blockade on the highway, soon had some 50 trucks lined up. The drivers started their engines and pushed ahead, daring the inspectors to get in their way. None...
...Indiana University historical murals at last installed and paid for, swart, swashbuckling little Missourian Thomas Benton wrote the university a bread-&-butter letter. He thanked the building's architects for the "great gilded spittoons which they have placed to hide as much of the paintings as possible," since "spittoons of Indiana's tobacco-chewing era are more appropriate to my murals, even when they hide them, than Greco-Roman statues or Mayan reliefs...