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Word: tuft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinu is made from calf's tendon. Developed by Charles T. (''Tommy") Davis and Dr. George Aaron Sharp in Brooklyn, it has long been used as a substitute for gut in surgical sutures. It is manufactured like a textile. The gristly tendon is "exploded" into a tuft of fluffy white material like cotton, but much tougher. After being cleaned, carded, twisted into cord, chemically treated, stretched and dried, the result looks almost exactly like catgut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pro Vines | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...little dandy. When the picture was first exhibited he insisted that the title be merely "Arrangement in Gray and Black." To Harper Pennington, a friend who was enthusiastic over the spiritual quality of the picture, the Butterfly suddenly softened. "Yes, -yes," he drawled, tugging gently at the little tuft under his lip, "one does like to make one's mummy just as nice as possible." So simple, so calm is the "Mother" that it is difficult to realize with what angry cluckings it was hailed on its first exhibition. Only because Sir William Boxall, Whistler's friend, argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Butterfly's Mummy | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Meanwhile at Munich slightly potbellied "Handsome Adolf" Hitler stroked his tuft of brown mustache, took the salutes of his campaign committeemen who cheered themselves hoarse, then gravely launched his campaign: "There are two possibilities: either to give or to deny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: VorwartsmitGott! | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...spite of its beer. But at Egern on the Tegernsee in the Bavarian Oberland he had a cheerful stopover. Before leaving Munich he bought a Bavarian outfit? leather breeches, laced at the knees, white stockings, green suspenders embroidered with a stag and edelweiss, a Jager hat with a tuft of chamois hair. Stealthily accoutring himself in his hotel room Author Hergesheimer admired himself before his mirror for some time, then changed to dinner clothes, went to the bar and drank two double Martinis. He would have drunk a third but the barkeep demurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Wine in Old Tanks | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...second University lacrosse game ever played the Jayvees defeated the Tuft's second team by the decisive score of 7 to 0. R. H. Watt '32 was high scorer with a total of 3 goals. Although the attack was not working smoothly, the defense remained unscored upon and J. B. Thorndike '31, playing second defense chalked up a goal. The Jayvees meet the Springfield team next Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND LACROSSE TEAM WINS FIRST ENCOUNTER | 4/23/1931 | See Source »

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