Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...display, situated near the library's first level exit, illustrates how photographs become printing plates in ten minutes when they are ruff through the CRIMSON'S $10,000 electric engraving machine...
...Amsterdam's great white-plastered Wester Kerk the light is religious but not dim. Through its many plain-glass windows floods a clear, Vermeer-like light. Last week, at the closing service of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, this revealing light showed every detail: ruff-collared Scandinavians; bearded, black-veiled Orthodox dignitaries; purple-cassocked Old Catholics; saffron-stoled representatives of the Church of South India; U.S. pastors in business suits and glittering spectacles. For the past fortnight, delegates from 147 churches in 44 countries-every major branch of Christianity except Roman Catholicism and the Russian...
...pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
...first Christie, an elegant man-about-town in wig and ruff, auctioned anything that came his way: coffins, barrel organs, pigs. He scoffed at paintings, which he called "stained rags...
...meeting in Agassiz Hall yesterday afternoon, Jacques Ruff, French United Nations delegate, addressed in French Le Cercle inter-Universitaire on persisting effects of the German occupation of his homeland...