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...government official who once worked on a temporary trial of prohibition in Bombay reported: "The first result of the experiment was a large increase in water consumption. Not because people were quenching their thirst on water. We found it was because people were taking more baths. A woman who had only one sari had not bothered to take a bath; but when her husband could no longer spend his money on toddy he would go out and buy his wife a second sari. She was then encouraged to take baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Noble Experiment | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Stepinac, with a capacity of 1,360 students, does offer everything, from manual training to a radio studio. When fully staffed, it will have 54 priests-more than the total number of ordained clergymen in many a U.S. Episcopal diocese. Each priest has a comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fundamentals of the Faith | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Century's barbershop and secretary, its train-to-city phone, shower bath, and doors that open at a touch were already standard equipment on several other "name" trains. Its new dining car seated fewer passengers than the old two-car arrangement, and placed diners with their backs to the scenery. The new roomettes still forced occupants to protrude into the corridor when pulling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: New Hopes & Ancient Rancors | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Then he took a shower and put on a pair of two-toned blue pajamas. He left the shower running. Carefully, he spread out three bath towels on the bathroom floor and lay down on them. Gripping the same .32 automatic with which he had shot Joseph Watkins, he put a bullet through his head, just forward of his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Crazy Thing at Princeton | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Round Table Discussions: "[They are] . . . like boring a hole through the wall of a Turkish bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Foal the Drab | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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