Word: bladed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...keystone of machine-tool production. In making automobile, aircraft, other products based on complete interchangeability of parts, only diamonds can bore pistons and connecting rods, dress grinding wheels to the necessary exactness. Diamond dies draw ignition wire to uniform size. Diamonds test the hardness of alloys in razor-blade and ice-skate factories. Diamonds tip the big drills that find gold under layers of rock. Diamonds cut tombstones and glass. Of the world's diamond production of around two and a half tons a year, 75% goes to industry...
Today Disston makes over 5,000,000 saws and blades a year, does some 75% of the U. S. handsaw business. Its saws & blades vary from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate...
Playwright Regan's East-Side saga obeyed every rule. Mama was widowed and warmhearted. One daughter, on the eve of her wedding, perished in a sweatshop fire. Another daughter married a gay blade who carried on with other women. The only son was killed making the world safe for democracy. The kindly boarder (Joseph Buloff) followed Mama around for three acts and 20 years, finally won her elderly hand as the curtain fell. For realism, there was yet another daughter, mean and ornery as they come. For atmosphere, there was an endless amount of Jewish cooking. For laughs, there...
...mentally ill for some time, had talked of committing suicide, had told him that she was pursued by demons. Final confirmation of Chloe's story was provided by her belated recollection: "While mother was begging me to hit her with the hammer she asked me for a razor blade. I got one and gave it to her, and watched her slash her wrists." An autopsy confirmed the unsuspected fact...