Word: webbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lanky, gable-nosed, Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings, proprietor of an elegant Madison Avenue furniture studio, is the author of a peg-legged, web-seated chair, which some fellow experts consider the finest of its kind. Robsjohn-Gibbings (pronounced the way it is spelled) has spent years fashioning tricky, glass-topped tables and elegant gadgets for the Park Avenue trade. Now he wants to design furniture for the workingman. A learned, articulate, 38-year-old U.S. citizen who settled in Manhattan in 1936, Robsjohn-Gibbings has made a careful study of furniture from Ancient Egypt to the present. "The Greeks...
...leader, in this queer obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...
...sense of emergency tautened the air of Allied uncertainty. Japanese feints and lunges at the Aleutians, the China seaboard, the northeastern frontiers of India, the northern fringes of Australia, and at Russia's far eastern borders bound the Allies in a web of contradictory plans and policies. Their only certainty was that the Japanese, unaided and therefore unfettered by allies, had a plan, and that the plan would be boldly executed...
...relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating, labyrinthine streets, its outer battlements and surrounding "greenbelt" of farms and forests providing a protective cellular wall...
...intimate knowledge of terrain is most important. Utilizing this knowledge of the countryside and employing guerilla tactics, units of the Home Guard have defeated troops of the Regular Army in war games in Britain. With such units in every town and hamlet, the English people form a widespread web to trap an invader from any direction...