Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katharine Cornell has "terrific stretch." It was first noticed by Elizabeth Montgomery, the dressmaker who designed Cornell's clothes for Lovers and Friends. "That is why her stage clothes must be tested in motion," Miss Montgomery explained. "That is also why she does something for the clothes...
...Forces consider the flying 75 still in "the exploratory stage." But "exploration" has produced impressive battle results...
...lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before she reaches the poison-taking stage...
...months, U.S. emissaries have been quietly sounding out Premier Stalin and other top Russians on such a pact. They have found them just as eager to buy as the U.S. is to sell. Negotiations have reached such a stage that Washington insiders whispered last week that President Roosevelt carried a rough draft of the pact in his pocket when he met Stalin in Teheran...
...Other techniques tested by teachers [are] ridiculing the child; embarrassing him; comparing him unfavorably with another; shaming him publicly; unduly mistrusting him; allowing the other children to make fun of or take advantage of him . . . especially failing to recognize and report behavior problems in their incipient stage and ... to see that they receive proper treatment. Simple as these techniques are, comparatively few teachers seem able to master them. It requires dogged determination and undeviating devotion to the cause of bigger and better delinquents...