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Word: warp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Cloth. Out of the inexhaustible bundle came a striped cloth 12 ft wide and 87 ft. long. Bird believes that this is the biggest cloth ever woven by pre-machine methods. He estimates that the weavers must have walked 77 miles while laying out the warp threads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fancy Wrapping | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...create feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking and beat my way to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ in the Kitchen | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: A Look at 2049 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Does a college education warp a woman's attitude toward marriage?" is the subject of a preliminary debate to be given at Hillel House at 8 p.m. tomorrow. Morris J. Wexler 1L is on the affirmative, and Ailene S. Pressman '51 of Radcliffe is on the negative side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Warps Women Is Hillel Debate Topic | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...seen, he said, "the ugly reality of how hate and prejudice can warp good men and women, turn Christian gentlemen into raving beasts, turn good wives and mothers into Jezebels . . . victims to the catchwords of prejudice and the slogans of hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Love That Man | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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