Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department chairman expects an even sharper decline in the amount of written work. To correct papers intelligently, and to give undergraduates valuable advice about their preparation, a rare brand of assistant is required. With departmental budgets declining and the College saddled with straight-jacket tenure rules, many would-be teachers probably will not stay here long enough to become expert and experienced instructors...
...Stalin to have Turkey, a secondary power, control the Bosporus is bad enough, but to have one of his rival dictators, Hitler or Mussolini, dominate the Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt...
Women's adoption of the long, unfitted jacket as part of their so-called "style wardrobe" is a usurpation of the traditional privilege of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men to wear their coats half-way down to their knees, Elsa Schiaparelli, the world's most famous fashion designer, admitted yesterday...
HARVARD'S highbrow readers will cast the book aside after one look at the jacket. Intelligent folks just do not read Western novels, with pictures of covered wagons and cow-punchers on the outside. So Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" would get no more than a sophisticated sneer from the educated elite...
...five-minute tours to the roof. Delayed-action bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...