Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of velvet or calico, the current Wellesleyite sometimes wears bluejeans, and often a man's shirt. In class, with a bandanna about her head, she sometimes looks a bit like a glamorized peasant woman trying to learn English...
...year, or as little as $200; her average is $1,200. Almost half (46%) of her classmates come from public high schools; one out of four is on a full-or part-time scholarship. Founder Durant had always insisted that "a calico girl is worth two velvet girls...
Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). National Velvet...
...velvet-curtained room off the Capitolio's Senate chamber, three Peronista Senators were quietly but efficiently remaking the Argentine judiciary. Their power stemmed from a previously unnoticed paragraph in the new Peron constitution (TIME, March 29) which provided that all federal justices be confirmed by the Senate. The clause, as interpreted by the Senate, was retroactive; it covered all sitting judges as well as new appointees...
...velvet guards and Sunday citizens...