Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps, the number of trousers per man doesn't seem to be very relevant to the distinctive appearance of the company. But since that one pair of pants has been worn steadily for five weeks, day in and day out, a certain similarity in uniform has very noticeably developed...
...situations where the WAVES and nurses, being women, would keep their hats on even though men would remove their caps (in the theater, or church, or at mess, for instance) it is presumed that the hat is not being worn as a badge of office, but in conformance to civilian rather than military custom--and in such instances the salute will not be given...
...sentiment and laciness is very much in evidence. Seasoned veterans of former years have searched in vain for the one card that would just capture their real feelings. Instead, he has had his choice of Valentines featuring such endearing gifts as a rope, with the suggestion that it be worn around the neck...
...over $100,000 a year. He is also one of the recording industry's biggest sellers, whose discs annually gross over $500,000. His Tchaikovsky Concerto (Victor) started a national furor a year ago when Bandleader Freddie Martin heard it and made a popular arrangement that was worn ragged in juke boxes from coast to coast. Rubinstein's proper version, riding the crest with Martin's adaptation, shortly rolled up a sale of an estimated 200,000 albums. His Grieg Piano Concerto, released by Victor in July, sold over 100,000 sets in its first three months...
Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation...