Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of moving in with a fast sales patter, the clerk who spends "three minutes buttering up the customer can trim seven minutes off the usual 20 it takes to sell a pair of shoes," said Talbott. He also checked displays at 70 Joyce retailers, found that white light on a display "is too hard" and helps few sales, purple light even fewer ("it's old-timy"). But yellow and red lights ("warm, emotional colors") boost sales of summer shoes because they excite the "impulse buying" of women...
...boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally molded today's trim, streamlined 225-lb. porker, with apartment-size hams...
Just as it was beginning to appear that the varsity hockey team was a sure bet to trim Princeton, Tiger skaters blossomed into life with three goals in four minutes that toppled Harvard, 5 to 4, in the final period of last night's Arena game...
...Beowulf to Beerbohm; it plummets through a thousand-year time span at a pace which leaves Shakespeare and Milton two lectures apiece. Examinations stress spot passages and details about the authors. When a man is through with English 1, he knows that "Proud-pied April dressed in all his trim" is from Sonnet XCVIII, and two semesters' worth of similar facts. This mass of detail may be an essential basis for English concentrators who are required to take the course. But it does not help non-concentrators who are looking for a background in English literature, for a course which...
From V.M.I. The morale of the new Nationalist army seems to be good, and officers credit the improvement to the work of trim, greying General Sun Li-jen, 49, who learned the elementary facts about soldiering at the U.S.'s Virginia Military Institute. Sun served ably against the Japanese at Shanghai and later in Burma, where he commanded the snappy, U.S.-trained 38th Division. As one of the Nationalists' top commanders in Manchuria after V-J day, he beat the Communists consistently. In 1947, Chinese clique politics led to his transfer to Formosa and the Fengshan training camp...