Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman at the piano was now rendering "Slaughter on 10th Avenue." My third tonic bottle was emptied, and I headed for supper, passing, on the way out, one guest with a Boy Scout badge in his lapel. Only one of the freshmen had been in uniform--khakis and blazer--and most wore matching coats and trousers. It won't be so in four years...
...year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
Flexibility of use was obtained by adopting the modular system of construction. This in practice, came about by constructing the interior of the library in uniform units of space, 18-feet by 24-feet, and bounded at the four corners by supporting columns. These dimensions were chosen because of their suitability for the open stacks, and seminar, office and carrel arrangements...
...which he was burned severely by mustard gas−he came out a captain, with a swatch of ribbons on his chest but no money in his pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde Nast...
...publisher, in turn, was also impressed by the Parisian suavity and horizon-blue uniform of the dapper young officer. He put him to work on fashion illustrations for Vogue, and Loewy swiftly demonstrated his unmatched ability to impress all the right people...