Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adhering to its invariable custom Hollywood proceeded to mould and stamp Miss Twelvetrees as a definite type. She was groomed and plumed, and came out a paradox. Her contact with the grim and the real was to be a result of her figure; just as her inherent fineness and final sublimation was to be foretold by the glow of spirituality that her slightly sloe-eyes could assume...
...directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain statuettes which his factories mould from designs by Germany's best known sculptors. Months ago Rosenthal managers pointed out a curious fact: the company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their...
Most men's decisions about their careers are leaps in the dark. The danger of leaping too soon is that a person of narrow experience is apt to remain blind to the qualities lacking in his particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...
Fielding Harris Yost, the man responsible for what Michigan calls her system of play, long ago subscribed to the fact that points scored and not first downs win games and he proceeded to mould his teams accordingly. The first thing Mr. Yost always did was to develop a good center. With a list headed by "Germany" Schulz he can undoubtedly point to the largest collection of first-class centers developed by any coach in football...
...present leaders of democracy are found unable to mould an unwieldy electorate into the foundation of a government . . . great changes in men and methods lie before us. Once the passing generation shows that its usefulness is exhausted, the choice of these men and methods must be wrested from their hands by youth...