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...that way, too, within 24 hours. Keeping the nose dry, he believes, makes a patient less susceptible to secondary infection. His method has been used in Elmira Reformatory's hospital for four years-about 1,300 colds so far-and Dr. Adler says the patients' noses are drier, their temperatures lower, than on standard treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Comfort | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

After this comes the whirling extractor, which presses water from the washed towels. The final phase of the cycle is the drier, powered by a 10 horsepower electric motor, which revolves and tumbles 100 towels at a time until they are soft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wartime Physical Program Steps Up Towel Laundering | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

...this one seemed already aerated--never seen a 'poon with drier ink. An' y' know, I mussa been drunk--becos every goddam thing in the paper seemed to me to have been written by some guy whats already left. Never seen a 'poon with so much correspondence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: See the New 'Poon Just Out? Freshman Benchley's Good | 2/15/1944 | See Source »

Fire With Fire. At Newnan, 160 miles north, the skies were kinder to Talmadge's opponent, who put on a drier, better act. Young (35) Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, boy wonder of Georgia politics, was out to beat Talmadge at his own medicine-show game. He served up 100 pit-barbecued pigs, 1,200 gallons of Brunswick stew, a two-hour vaudeville show featuring the Coweta Cracker Crunchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Change in the Weather | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...pressure on U.S. prices-especially consumer prices-is getting stronger every week. Plugged by the patriotic thumbs of 1,700,000 retailers, the dyke has kept consumers much drier than they may feel. Last week many a retailer prepared to rest his thumb, turn over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst Is Yet to Come | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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