Word: ribboners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subject: alongside his famous portraits of Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and Bernard Shaw hung an impressive series of industrial photographs done with the master's usual flair for drama. In a steel plant and an auto factory, he had found workers posed like ballerinas around a slender ribbon of steel, had photographed paint sprayers conferring like brain surgeons, and had turned the molten metal slopping from a ladle into a flowing abstraction...
...steamed back to port, the crew hung an oversize broom on a mast. It was a symbol for "sweeping the sea," and a rehearsal for the day when the United States hopes to win the Blue Ribbon Atlantic speed record from the Queen Mary (three days and 20 hours, 42 minutes, or an average speed of 31.69 knots), and bring the prize to the U.S. for the first time in 100 years.* The United States will sail July 3 on her maiden voyage under Commodore Harry Manning. Weather permitting, Commodore Manning hopes to capture the speed record on the first...
...same man, a stipend of $600 to $100 may serve merely as a lure. Of course, the element of need often results in the joint awarding of scholarship funds by several schools, what these officials fear is that this money may some day be used as a fancy red ribbon to attract the "glamour boys." at the expense of the needy student...
...aircraft carriers were eligible to compete with ocean liners for the Atlantic blue ribbon, U.S.S. Lake Champlain would own it, to hang in her wardroom...
...ribbon bow to bind my hair, If I had a fancy sash, my own true love would think me fair...