Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford designers gave the Lincolns a new vacuum-controlled device for raising and lowering windows automatically. They also softened corners on all models, added flashy trim...
...been agent in Equitable Life Assurance Society's $1,275,000 purchase of a La Salle Street office building, in several other spectacular deals. Last week's was tops to date; Rubloff calls it "Chicago's biggest real-estate deal in three decades." Tall and trim, Rubloff lives in the fashionable Lake Shore Drive Hotel, spends weekends raising flowers and Gordon setters on a 314-acre Wisconsin estate which he bought two years ago for $300,000. On the estate are 40 acres of woods which Rubloff calls "the national park...
Further specifications, plain to airmen, Greek to civilians: P-40 (Curtiss pursuit), a girl who is neat, streamlined, trim; P-38 (Lockheed's swift, highflying, two-engined interceptor that climbs so fast pilots are apt to get the bends), similar but dangerous for the inexperienced; P39 (Bell's Airacobra pursuit which has several rare features, engine behind the pilot), strange, swift, mysterious; the prefix Z (for obsolete), over age 28; O-47 (North American observation plane), a girl from Dorothy Parker's couplet-wears glasses; B-19 (Douglas' huge bomber), stylish stout...
...noon hour last week two slim, trim, pretty girls, with yellow hair and peach-&-cream skin, met in the cafeteria on the roof of Washington's new Social Security Building, lunched together for the first time...
Silver-haired, trim (about 175 lb., 5 ft. 10 in.), Andy Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command...