Word: used
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...current issue of the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, devoted entirely to his work, shows how lively old Frank Lloyd Wright still is. Not long ago, he asked a news photographer to use tissue over his flashbulbs so as not to accent Wright's wrinkles; but the new wrinkles in his architecture are impossible to hide. He crammed the FORUM with diagrams of fresh ideas as seemingly wild as the spiral museum he designed for Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation...
...University of Arkansas, which recently refused to admit a Negro law student, said that it would reconsider if he reapplied. He could use the law library and study under the regular faculty-but in a separate classroom. Negro undergraduates, however, will still be refused...
Dignity, Inc. In Philadelphia, used car dealers solemnly agreed to ban the use of such names as "More Money Max" and "Top DollarJoe" as out of keeping with the industry's "desire to maintain a dignified attitude...
Muffed. In near-zero Newark, the W.A.A. advertised 224 electrically heated muffs. But prospective buyers were chilled by a full description. It said that an airplane was needed to make use of the muffs, which plug into its electrical (24 volts) system...
While southern New England refused to budge from its demand for national review of all N.S.A. political action, the north conciliated and will request the national executive committee to censure those persons and groups which use the organization's name in partisan issues not vital to students as students...