Search Details

Word: skirtsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Compromise | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Long-Ranged Patrick. Some modern missiles are too long-ranged for Holloman, big and remote as it is. To test these fearsome "birds," most of which are highly secret, the Air Force maintains Patrick Air Force Base on the east coast of central Florida. From Cape Canaveral, a scrub-covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: PIONEERS IN SPACE-AIR FORCE SCIENTISTS FACE THE UNKNOWN | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Brando is the revolutionary tiger, an uneducated animal of the soil, yet his dedication to the peasants' cause is beautifully expressed. In bold contrast to Brando's passionate sincerity, Kazan develops the black-draped figure of Fernando as the cratic zealot of any war--the traitor who with no devotion...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Viva Zapata | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

For the biggest overseas industrial exhibition that Red China has yet attempted, the entrance to Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Red Propaganda Fair | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

The physical surroundings as well as the atmosphere of publishing change as one skirts the Common and walks to Ginn and Company in Park Square. Occupying almost a whole floor in one of the city's largest office buildings, Ginn is more a strictly commercial enterprise than its trade sisters...

Author: By David H. Rhinelander, | Title: Publishing in Boston: Tracts to Textbooks | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

Previous | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | 249 | Next