Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catch glimpses of the new look. For classmates of 1928 who have been out of contact with the University since graduation, the new look is evident; Harvard is chock-full of new buildings, new courses, new ideas about education to keep pace with the times. Whether the "old pot" label is as apt this year as before is a moot question--especially since the Corporation has selected a new President from the Class of '28: a man young in both the freshness of his ideas and vigor of his leadership...
...sale at U.S. pop-record counters last week was a ten-inch number with an attached red sticker of warning: "The enclosed record is HORRIBLE." The label was an understatement. The tunes (Fish and There's a New Sound) offer some of the most nightmarish vocals of modern times to the accompaniment of an asthmatic calliope. Sample lyric...
...included: 1) a machine made by the Gurey Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, which counts returned empty bottles, calculates the amount of the credit and gives the customer a credit slip; 2) a can straightener displayed by Can-Do, Inc., New York City, which removes dents from cans without damaging the label...
...world's leading artists, a surprising number wear the Communist label in varying shades of red. In Mexico, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros are all-weather Communists; France's Fernand Leger often parrots the party line; so does Italy's Renato Guttuso. Last week two of modern art's foremost painters, both avowed Communists, were displaying their latest approach to an age-old theme: war and peace...
...Because some of his constituents who wear elastic galluses and garters have broken out in a rash, Congressman James C. Davis of Georgia has introduced a bill to require users of synthetic rubber in girdles, garters and the like to say so clearly on the label. Most manufacturers say they use natural rubber anyhow...