Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their leadership in the field and . . . combat command appropriate to the rank," jovial, mustachioed Edward P. King Jr., genial George M. Parker Jr., were raised from brigadier to major generals. For "leadership and gallantry" Colonel Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, St. Mihiel and Argonne veteran, trim James R. N. Weaver, Mississippi-born William E. Brougher, were made brigadiers...
Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. got orders from the Navy to have a haircut. The Navy dislikes long hairdos, prefers a trim a hair's breadth from a crew...
Before them spread the stage of one of the most grimly deadly dramas in World War II. The Marines were at work, kidding as they went, after the tradition of the professional soldier. A few were bandaged, but still on duty. All had lost the trim, starched look on which Marines in the tropics insist. Behind their grins of welcome their eyes were haggard, hard...
Busiest museum director in the U.S. last week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks...
...intelligent contributions to camouflage will come from the concerted action of several branches of the University, but why should the correllation be under the obviously unqualified leadership of the Fogg? Are we to believe that they will trim their long hari, shelve their academicism and adopt the necessary experimental attitude? The exact bearing of the "color-value theory" on camouflage is almost as obscure as the motives behind the Fogg's sudden announcement. It is imperative that such a vital and, prior to Pearl Harbor; such a widely disparaged subject be put under competent direction if it is to make...