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...Terriers lack depth in the running events, although they do have three outstanding performers: Bull Sheerer, New England dash champion last year; Bill Smith, National AAU champion in the 1000 yard race; and George Terry, current IC4A cross-country champion...

Author: By James W. Singer iii, | Title: Track Team to Meet Boston University Tonight in Season's Opener at Briggs | 12/15/1954 | See Source »

NYLON stockings will soon be sheerer. Karl Lieberknecht, Inc. of Reading, Pa., one of the top knitting-machine makers, is producing a new 75-gauge knitter (current highest: 72 gauge) that will turn out the sheerest stockings ever made from 12-denier nylon staple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 15, 1954 | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market. Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman cut one line of 66-gauge, 12-denier nylon hose from $2.50 to $1.15 because the manufacturer had been forced out of business. With a new knitting machine to make super-sheer, 72-gauge, 10-denier hose now on the market, many hosiery makers may have to scrap their almost new 51-and 60-gauge machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jun. 8, 1953 | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...introduced next day to a new Long Security, curled up for the morning's work. He was then carried happily off to be ground up for oil. The offspring of this union is a formidable tyke, capable of producing silk evener in color, stronger and slightly sheerer (thinner) than Japan's prewar best. In due course, the Japs hope to find him out on many an American limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Worms' Turn | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...this picture, we urge them to take this final opportunity. Those who saw Miss Cornell's performance can go without fear that they will be too greatly disappointed, for in the screen version the emphasis has been shifted from Elizabeth Barrett to her harsh, perverted father, and although Norma Sheerer is no Cornell, Charles Laughton as Edward Moulton-Barrett is convincing enough for anyone...

Author: By R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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