Word: bleach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Home from New Guinea, Lieut. Colonel Jane Clement, of Army Nurse Corps, told a tale of trade: in return for rescuing flyers downed in the jungles, the tonsorially minded natives are supplied with peroxide to bleach their hair...
...bleach that can be whipped up at home with an egg beater (ten minutes instead of an hour to brighten the hair...
...into three huge machines in a University laundry whose equal only the Army can boast. Two barrels of soap even larger than the one John Hawkins hid in are consumed every week in washing the equipment; plenty of "sour" is added to spike any and all odors; and the bleach removes stains and discoloring...
...Convinced that they are unprepared for the future, they continue groping for something that might be of "use." But only a systematized liberal education, an orderly presentation of all human thought, can give them this preparation. If they are to gain a solid stock of knowledge that does not bleach away in old bluebooks, the light of liberal education must be rekindled by every effort...