Word: clippers
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...think their shorter hair and the fact that they "scuffle more" than girls had something to do with it. By shrewd detective work, an altogether different explanation was found: boys get ringworm in barbershops. The P.H.S. men noticed that 65% of the boys' scalp infections were in the "clipper area." Following up the clue, they learned that, sure enough, barbers' clippers (also combs, brushes and scissors) in Hagerstown barbershops were heavily infected...
...fifth of the usual transmitter weight will be required henceforth for ordinary communication purposes with a device announced to the American Psychological Association recently by Dr. J. C. R. Licklider, lecturer in Psychology and research fellow at the Psyche-Acoustical Laboratory. Known as the premodulation clipper, the gadget uses a fraction of the normal power in transmitting speech in a distorted but intelligible...
Nearby filling-station attendants complained that their washrooms were clogged with naked Witnesses taking sponge baths. Mechanics sweated without charge over the creaking chariots of fellow zealots. Free haircuts were dispensed by an amateur barber who was thoughtful enough to bring along an electric clipper. Payless chefs, cooking in tin-plated oil drums and 600-gallon kettles, ladled out 75,000 meals...
...American Airways' Dixie Clipper took off with a full load of 45 passengers (among them was Boston's millionaire scientist, Dr. Godfrey Lowell Cabot, 84, on his 44th Atlantic crossing, his first by air). During the week three of American Export Airlines' Flying Aces, Pan American's Atlantic Clipper and American Clipper zoomed for Europe with all passenger space filled...
...great new anchorage at Leyte. She had carried vital materials for the first atomic bomb from the States to Guam, and now, on Sunday, July 29, was logging 17 knots to rejoin the fleet. Shortly before midnight the end came for the veteran (commissioned in 1932) clipper-bowed "Indy." Two explosions on her starboard side smashed her communications, fouled her controls. She sank within 15 minutes...