Word: cleaner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...world supremacy. In Tide last week, he listed 52. Among them: "World's most widely used sound-conditioning materials" (Celotex); "World's most personal fountain pen" (Ester-brook); "World's greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World's strongest folding chair" (Samsonite); "World's thinnest electric shaver" (Schick...
...Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house and found it furnished with some 2,000 objets d'art pilfered over the past 24 years. John did his last-ditch best to save some of the pieces by stuffing them into a vacuum cleaner or hiding them in a toilet tank, but it did no good: in fact, by this last-minute greediness some valuable items were ruined. The police hauled the rest of the lovely things back to the museum and turned John and Mary over to a magistrate...
...foil did not work well as a dressing for burns despite the early hopes of Dr. Alfred W. Farmer (TIME, Aug. 30, 1948), but he has found something simpler and more effective: dusting the burn with fine aluminum powder. It is easier to apply than pressure dressings, leaves a cleaner edge around the healing area, and is more comfortable for patients...
...sniffing opportunity. The United Nations' Conference was just beginning, and radio stations, gripped by a wartime shortage of talent, were starved for announcers. Webb landed a temporary job at station KGO, the San Francisco outlet of the American Broadcasting Co. He went through the station like a vacuum cleaner, sucking up information...
...named because France's famed Architect Le Corbusier once said: "The house is a machine for living") tries to be functional, but only succeeds in destroying privacy. "The 'living area' becomes an echoing cavern reverberating with every sound from children's yelling to the vacuum cleaner's whine. The open serving hatch [becomes] a television screen, showing a disheveled would-be functionalist trying to cope with a multiplicity of electric contrivances that report their broccoli and onions way beyond their allotted zone." The dining room "where families and friends got to know each other...