Word: knit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...either that or no more women," categorically stated shy, misogynist John A. Holabird, Jr. '42, recently appointed Committee Chairman, as he hastily field his dinner table last night before the onslaught of a bevy of knit-clad females...
...wings grow soft, spongy. But a stiff dose of female sex hormones toughens them up again. Drs. Ralph Gorman Hills and James Arthur Weinberg were so struck with this news that they went right out and tried female hormones on women whose bones were broken and did not knit. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, they told what luck they...
Together with Beetheven's "Missa Solemnis," sounds of "knit one, purl two," can be heard around Glee Club haunts these days as the singers open fire on Hitler with a "knit sweators for Britain" campaign...
...minded citizen stands in the prop wash of many a muddled controversy. He realizes that the U. S. aircraft industry has grown in three years from a midget employing fewer than the knit underwear trade to the focal point of Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" which today holds Britain's life in the balance. But he is confused by fragments of ill-ordered, semi-secretive information and misinformation fired at him haphazardly by the press, labor, Government, business. Out of this confusion this week came an encyclopedic attempt to synthesize the whole problem: the all-aviation March issue...
...enterprises," the unlisted securities of privately owned corporations. Such companies include giants like rayon-making American Viscose, British-American Tobacco's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Kool, Raleigh). They also include many smaller fry: British Ropes, Ltd., J. & J. Cash, Inc. (woven names), Crosse & Blackwell (jam, etc.), Jaeger Co. (knit goods), Oxford University Press, Yardley & Co. (cosmetics), many another. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, stock in such companies is "unseasoned," would probably find an uncertain market...