Word: tailoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste falters only rarely, notably in her portrait of her Royal cousin, which might have graced the shop windows of a military tailor...
...probability, the current Nominating Committee was fully representative of its class. That particular problem of fact is not, however, the crux of the matter. If such a precedent of secrecy were established, it could be a tailor-made method of "fixing" elections in the future, whenever a group in power decided to make the attempt. Only complete publicity of the names of those who choose the slate can assure that they will be responsible and answerable to their constituents, and can protect the undergraduates from the possibilities of gross misrepresentation...
Andy Johnson's story is a natural for the cinema. An illiterate, runaway tailor's apprentice, Andy (Van Heflin) arrives in Greeneville, Tenn. with shackles on his ankles, has them chopped off by the village blacksmith, sets up a tailor shop, is taught to read and write by the young village librarian (Ruth Hussey), who becomes his wife. Under her guidance Andy is elected sheriff, Governor, Senator, Vice President...
...weird, neutral land of Ireland was in a stew about censorship last week. The censorship had nothing to do with the war. A farmer had complained to Eire's Book Censorship Bureau that he had found his daughter reading The Tailor and Anstey, a translation from the Gaelic of free-style conversation between an old Cork peasant and his wife. The Bureau (four professors, one a Catholic priest) promptly banned the book...
...never been duplicated in the laboratory, probably never will be. Chemists prefer to call the synthetic rubbers "elastomers," a new class of materials, and an industry as big and diverse as plastics and synthetic textiles. Special properties can be built to order in elastomers because their molecules are tailor-made. They are put together in different designs by combining various small unit groups of atoms into polymers (from the Greek: "many parts"). The chief units: butadiene, acetylene, ethylene, styrene...