Word: warps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, the new discovery will result in a disastrous American social philosophy. The very warp and woof of American society is woven with the virile strands of Darwin and Herbert Spencer. Everyone knows that such stalwarts as Andrew Carnegie and Jay Gould, the true fathers of our country, the pioneers of our economic Manifest Destiny, were ardent champions of the tooth-and-nail existence...
...composer must be a weaver; his creations, like cloth, have warp and woof, and some degree of lightness or heaviness, thickness or thinness, to say nothing of color. Last evening's Paine Hall concert by the Cambridge Quartet and assisting artists offered a particularly fine chance to study musical texture, especially since the musicians included some of the College's best...
...Mannerist artists sensed the full impact of the world in crisis, they began to warp reality to meet the mounting tension of their inner vision...
Through the College Charters, Statutes, and rulings, runs also that fragile thread of personalities and human relationships which can keep the warp of the Corporation interwoven harmoniously with the woof of the Faculty. When this thread is snapped, as it has been occasionally, the result is revolt and hostility...
...Magnesium skis that will not warp, dry out or lose their camber...