Word: warp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of their summer home at Seal Harbor, Me. It took three years of intermittent stitching for Mrs." Zorach to finish it. "The difficult thing," she explained last week, "is to get the right sort of linen for them. It must be loosely woven, but strong, and the warp and woof must be even. The wools are not so hard. I used to get mine from an old man down in Greenwich Village. I think he was a fence for stolen goods. . . . Sometimes I dye them myself and sometimes I take already dyed wools and re-dye them. I have...
...regulate the morals of less puritanical Cantabridgians. Since they have demonstrated that they intend to leave no stone unturned to keep the collective Cambridge Mind free from hampering vulgarity, whether it will or no, it is only fitting that new menaces, insidiously working their way into the very warp and woof of Cambridge life, which, in their manifold duties they have probably overlooked, be pointed out to them...
Once safely launched, tugs would warp the liner into her fitting basin where work on the superstructure should be completed by 1936. In the spring of that year she will take her place upon the sea as the greatest ship ever to fly the British flag...
...took the presidency in 1922, his job was to create a peacetime business. Nickel was such a drug on the market that the mines were closed, his company had lost nearly $800,000 in one year. Smart, self-confident, aggressive and a trained metallurgist. President Stanley wove into the warp of industry a number of steel and copper alloys, notably Monel metal (named after Nickel's first president, the late Col. Ambrose Monell). He fixed the price of nickel at 35¢ per lb. in 1926, did not raise it in 1929, did not lower it during Depression. And if Nickel...
...until a man is dead and buried can he safely be called great. Death and its historical illusion then lend the word some meaning, which it lacks in an age addicted to strong language. Boundaries warp perspectives even more: one land's hero is another's hissing, and there is no universal Emily Post to tell plain men in whose presence to doff their hats. But this week, in the name of half a hemisphere, literary Manhattan was ready to do homage to a foreign writer, to acknowledge him" as safely great though still dangerously alive...