Word: base
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellowish-white product of whale oil known as spermaceti is at the base of most creams, most lipsticks. Vegetable dyes provide the color. The beet is a common source of red coloring, as is the European plant alkanet, and cochineal, crushed from the dried bodies of the female Coccus Cacti, a Mexican and Central American beetle with a fondness for cactus. Plants and insects yield carminic acid. Aniline will make lipstick indelible; benzoin makes it kissproof...
Most makers claim a base of rice for their powders. But many a woman hides a red nose with much the same chalk dust that her grandmother used. Her grandmother went to the drugstore, bought chalk drops and crushed them herself. Now she could choose between a multiplicity of powders, scented, exotically labeled, but not far different from the - chalk-drops...
...cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space for 1,200 cars ... a railroad station under the ground . . . swimming pool, auditoriums, restaurants, shops, three clubs scattered about on various floors. . . . Thus...
...restoring the sufferer to normalcy. Dr. Clement C. Chesterman, who has spent years in the Belgian Congo, will cooperate with Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas to turn the jungle into a vast clinic, inoculating thousands of infected natives and animals with the drugs. They will follow epidemics around Africa, maintaining a base at Leopoldville, Congo capital...
June 25: Pilgrim Nobile, safe on his base ship, explains why the captain of a ship may, under certain conditions, allow himself to be the first, instead of the last, to enjoy rescue...