Word: linens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time of his shirts' reappearance the celestial said, "Thursday, then." The conversation seemed to have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt, but his gesticulation were cut short by a thin wisp of smoke arising from the offended garment. Wing seemed in the best of spirits after this demonstration of his ironing ability...
...think you have the stamina. . . ." Ellsworth Vines, No. 8 a year ago, was ranked No. i for winning ten tournaments including the National championship last year. The selection of this gangling 20-year-old who imparts a slice to his forehand drives and often plays in a white linen cap that looks too big for him startled tennis enthusiasts much less than something Vines did last week. Just before the rankings were announced, Vines declared his intention of leaving the University of Southern California, where he studies in the School of Commerce when not working part-time...
...Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child of one, a boy of twelve, and a man whose chief pre-occupation at the age of thirty was to manouvre little lead soldiers over a battle ground of table linen. When one thinks of the country before and after Peter in these terms and then considers the lasting influence he had upon Russia, one must pause in admiration...
...coordination of such an addition with units already complete and varying among themselves is a delicate piece of planning. The many details that enter into the construction of an art museum and especially one for University use, from cork floors to linen wall coverings, for example, will involve a series of many conferences between, the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott and the directors, Dr. A. W. Forbes '95 and Professor P. J. Sachs...
...record its deeds in action. The first news photographer gave up his comfortable studio, built a little black wagon for a traveling .dark room (nicknamed the "What-is-it?'' by inquisitive soldiers), and took the field in his own uniform, a floppy straw hat and a long linen duster...