Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glimmer for Glamor. Because the clothes of movie actresses are the most widely imitated by U.S. women, the Screen Actors Guild urged more stars to set a thrifty wartime style by dropping glamor for the duration. Actresses were asked to wear cotton, to stick to the standardized WPB silhouettes, to go without hairpins, zippers and metal jewelry...
...unpacking his trunk in Cambridge, secure in the ascetic belief that his next three or four years will be spent with his nose deep in books. It is inteded for the Freshman who thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his hometown love and will never have a chance to relax with the belles of Greater Boston...
...week's end Rommel's battered columns were backing & filling short of Tobruk. General Sir Claude Auchinleck the British Middle East Commander in Chief, wired congratulations to Lieut. General Neil Methuen Ritchie's defending Eighth Army: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. Don't let him get away. Give him no rest. Good luck...
Making It Stick. Wood veneer (plywood) planes are 25 years old. The first rickety-looking planes were flown in World War I-but mould and temperature changes ate away the casein (milk base) glues which held their veneers together. Not until the plastics industry evolved a phenolic resin glue with a permanent grip were strong wood airplanes possible...
...radio's two big program surveying concerns (the other: Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gets out the "Crossley" ratings), the results were a personal triumph. He had long maintained that, since daylight saving means little to 70% of Americans except through their radio dials, broadcast schedules ought to stick to standard time...