Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only after a discouraging several hours that the Glamourettes turned to the library staff. Gallantly coming to their aid, Robert H. Haynes '22, assistant librarian, obligingly posed. "I think I am the first Harvard official to pose for your magazine," he said proudly--even if it was a rear view...
...Margaret M. Wheatley burst into tears. Emily Bradley Saltonstall, daughter of Massachusetts' Governor, enlisted in the WAVES in Boston as an apprentice seaman. Alfred Ryder, 26, long the "Sammy" of Radio's The Goldbergs, went off to Camp Upton as a private. Benito Mussolini, who used to pose at the controls of a plane, took an experimental, electric-drive car for a trial...
Last season the leading U.S. opera company wound up with a $214,000 deficit. Opera-wise people knew that the Met had suffered a disappointing season. Many had guessed an operating loss of $50,000 to $102,000. But the published figure was big enough to pose once again the question of opera's survival in a streamlined...
...tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare not miss? To date at least 20 ideas have been considered worth investigation. Nothing new has turned up. There are half a dozen ways to make rubber-about 50, if impracticable processes are included. More than 1,000 plants are known...
...adjustments due almost immediately: 1) a definition of how to price seasonal merchandise like women's summer and fall clothing, which is not comparable to anything sold in march: 2) a similar decision on men's clothing for fall, where the wool shortage and recent wage increases pose special problems. Probable solution: allowing a normal markup...