Word: warping
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...