Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hook calls narrow departmentalization an "intellectual scandal." He would tailor college courses to the problem-beset individual of today. In the first two years, all students would take overall courses; in the final two years, study programs would be elected but "directed," as in the new plans of Harvard, Colgate, Princeton...
Last week, as his "Stories for Children" reached 142,000 sales, Peary was busy cutting a second set, The Brave Little Tailor (based on Grimms' Gallant Tailor who killed "seven at one blow") and Cinderella...
...pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...
...small, energetic tailor named Samuel Klein opened a one-room retail dress shop on Manhattan's Union Square. He had $600 in capital, 36 dresses on his racks. In less than 20 years, S. Klein On The Square became the world's largest women's-wear store, sold as much as $25,000,000 worth of clothes a year to bargain-hunting, women...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had two new titles-one that recalled the past, another that thrust him into the future. He was now Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and new Chief of the Imperial General Staff.* His job was to tailor Britain's Army to the shape of the atomic...