Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next exercise, the class was told to stretch their pectoral mucles. Mrs. Parker had proved the efficiency of this exercise before the class by showing us a newspaper of four debs in strapless formals, and asking us to choose the two that came from Radcliffe. We were right. She maintains that Harvard's postures are, in general, worse than Radcliffe's, probably because boys concentrate on athletics and girls on attractiveness...
Massive New Look. Specific reasons for concern were not difficult to find; they include precarious local crises that stretch from the trigger-happy situation between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East to France's evident inability to deal with her problems in North Africa and at home, from the increasing economic penetration by Communist China in Asia to Britain's recurring economic crisis (TIME, Feb. 27). But overriding and surrounding and worsening all of these local problems is the massive "new look" of Communist policy elaborately displayed in Moscow...
Since World War II Rosenthal has been run by Philip Jr., 39, who got his M.A. at Oxford, did a stretch in the Foreign Legion, and is an amateur pilot, skier, cross-country runner and sports-car enthusiast. Realizing that the company's designs were outmoded at war's end. young Philip had new lines styled by Europe's top artists-Finland's Tapio Wirrkala, Germany's Bele Bachem. France's Jean Cocteau. In 1951, when U.S. sales slumped, Rosenthal teamed up with Designer Raymond Loewy to make medium-priced contemporary dinnerware for American...
...Crimson will face Williams on Tuesday at the Watson Rink and then will enter its final Ivy League stretch beginning against Princeton in New Jersey next Saturday...
...Virgin Land" is Soviet propaganda's term for an unsettled stretch of central Siberian steppe, about the size of the two Dakotas, that Party Secretary Khrushchev grandiosely planned to put under wheat in just two seasons. Ploughs and tractors were brought hastily from the Ukraine. Tens of thousands of Komsomols (Young Communists), most of them without farm experience, were dumped on the steppe and told it was their sacred duty to produce...