Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were Rolls-Royces, Mercedes, Isotta Fraschinis, Fiats. Some had cowls of aluminum. Others had a veneer of satinwood. A few were plated all over with gold. There were purple, vermilion, lavender and orange limousines and sports models with velvet and satin upholstery...
...There is not that covering of subtlety and finesse which enables people to deceive one another, to appear insincere, to hide true thoughts. But the character of these simple people is so often invisible to us because of this very lack of surface adornment. One looks for a veneer where there is none, and is mystified...
...Jumped on the malt and veneer container industries. The Federal Trade Commission issued complaints against the United States Maltsters Assn., American Veneer Package Assn. Inc., Eastern Package Assn., Southern Package Assn. Inc., Northeastern Package Assn., Midwest Package Assn., and the members of each. Charge: price-fixing in the two industries to create monopolies...
...President Hutchins' two-year "Associate in Arts" degree, Mr. Lake let his animosity toward Harvard lead him into a contradiction. The only excuse for laboriously learning the classics is the thorough nature of the education it gives. Nothing is more contrary to Mr. Lake's desires than a speedy veneer of culture, followed by a purely vocational course. A two-year university degree comes close to being a contradiction of terms. President Lowell is reported as saying that "In sixty years the Lord can make an oak, but the best He can do in six months is a pumpkin...
...This appears to us to be a case of vindictive persecution covered by a thin veneer of legal Phariseeism...