Word: sleekness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like an old 40 and 8 being transformed into a Pullman coach, Sever Hall is going Lamont. The grimy Greek statuary and the faded photos of French cathedrals are on their way out and the archaic benches will be removed in favor of a sleek, specially designed desk chair. By spring, Henry Hobson Richardson's building will sport an interior in soft pastel shades, humming with glareless fluorescent lights...
Last week, it looked as if the British gamble was ready to pay off. At Farnborough Airfield, in Hampshire, Britain's aircraft builders showed 180,000 spectators a fleet of sleek new commercial planes that were well ahead of anything the U.S. has in the air or abuilding. Among the 59 new fighter and commercial planes were the world's first jet transport plane, the first turbo-prop (turbine-driven propeller) transport, and other turbo-prop transports ranging from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest...
...tubular '20s: the new line was boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...
...Osaka's sleek, well-run subways, sweating crowds pour downtown during the early morning commuting hours. Many of the men wear shorts and Frank Buck-style pith helmets; Osaka's prostitutes are almost the only women who still wear the traditional Japanese kimonos; girl office workers do the best they can in makeshift "new look" dresses...
...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...