Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blighted by cutworms, and animals are decimated with tuberculosis. . . . When the theological seminaries of Brazil recognize this . . . by including in their curricula courses of rural economics, rural sociology, public health, diet and nutrition, youth activities, handcrafts, nursing . . . church finance . . . the teaching of Christian giving, a new day will dawn...
...inlays are light, comfortable, and move enough to be convincing when face muscles move. Their only disadvantage is that they wear out fast. A long life for a nose is 15 days. But if the wearer has Dawn's equipment, he can make a new nose in short order...
...Dawn has made only about a dozen inlays for the Navy. But in the near future many cases may echo Dawn's sailor patient who looked in the mirror and cried: "God, I'm happy! Now I can go home...
...Dawn left Hollywood to fight with the British during World War I, but returned in 1919 as a make-up assistant with Universal. He began making whole false faces to suit parts. One of his first was a stiff, heavy irritating mask he wore in the role of an ape in 1925. In 1935, after nine years of research while doing makeups for M.G.M., he found what he wanted- a synthetic plastic good for making mobile, lifelike masks. It is of secret composition (the process is patented, but he gives it to the Navy free) which he calls vinylite resin...
...Dawn Method. First step in making a Dawn inlay for a disfigured man is to make a life mask of his face with the missing parts added. Then the extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...