Word: dryer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years at Sweet Briar, she held fast to her rule that "the administration of a college is the servant of great teaching." She herself taught a course in the philosophy of religion, spent her days wrestling with a shrinking budget and dictating letters "anyplace and anywhere, even under the dryer when I get there...
...automatic wash outfit to be installed in the House basement, was passed unanimously by the House Committee last Tuesday. The main reason for the change in plans, as cited by Herman, stems from the fact that the House treasury cannot stand the expense of purchasing a washer and the dryer that would also be required...
...Angeles, Bullock's department store next week will put on sale a hatlike home hair dryer for women, the "Turbanette." Price: $6.95. (It will soon go on sale in 30 other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...
...possible that Dryer's visual images may prove highly profitable (rental: $17.50 to $25). There are only some 18,000 theaters in the U.S., but there are well over 200,000 Protestant churches...
Cineminister Dryer conducts the nondenominational services for his films and preaches the sermons himself, which are illustrated with his own mood shots of nature (e.g., a glimpse of Yosemite's Half Dome: "God is the Rock of Ages in the midst of a confused world...