Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the Neutrality Patrol of Navy and Coast Guard boats. Next morning Mr. Roosevelt authorized Secretary Stephen T. Early to announce: "The President . . . thought the author of the story had very cleverly woven the longtime historic policy of the United States into a story which is a deliberate...
...trail blazer in the movement to liberalize Harvard education from over concentration, the field of History and Literature has woven two subjects involving completely different disciplines together in such a way that it affords the best general study of civilization offered in college. Because of its broad base and interest in different approaches, it binds the concentrator with but few restrictions and permits him to take a wider variety of courses than any other field except perhaps the new area Social Science field. The reason for the success of the field lies in the excellence of the tutorial staff...
Concerning Eli Whitney, scholars have ginned from history only a few pale fluffs of information. Roger Burlingame, social-minded historian of U. S. invention (Engines of Democracy, etc.), has woven these factual fluffs, plus a few skeins of imaginative ersatz, into an attractive fabric which is part novel, part biography: Whittling Boy-the Story of Eli Whitney...
...book value) of "investments in controlled enterprises," the unlisted securities of privately owned corporations. Such companies include giants like rayon-making American Viscose, British-American Tobacco's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Kool, Raleigh). They also include many smaller fry: British Ropes, Ltd., J. & J. Cash, Inc. (woven names), Crosse & Blackwell (jam, etc.), Jaeger Co. (knit goods), Oxford University Press, Yardley & Co. (cosmetics), many another. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, stock in such companies is "unseasoned," would probably find an uncertain market...
...written it better than Playwright Barry, who has written it often (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, et al.}. No one could have adapted it better than pink-faced, pink-thinking Scenarist Donald Ogden Stewart. Both writers learned the proper inflections of the polite in the best clubs at Yale. Woven into their saga of the supertaxed is a thorough discussion of snobbery, from which they spring to the conclusion that it is possible to have money and social position and still be nice. Converted to this reasoning is Reporter Stewart, who enters the Lord household muttering complaints about watching...