Word: even
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being on the outside again. In fact, he began to think, he might even get help over the radio in a plea for parole...
Most moth repellents and mothproofing chemicals, says Moncrieff, are expensive, not very successful, and often wash out of the wool eventually. So wool-protecting chemists tried another, more subtle approach. Noting that even the best-adjusted moths can barely digest wool, they tried to make it completely indigestible...
...thioether cross-linkages." The artificial links are as strong mechanically as the natural ones, so the wool is as strong. The links are also stronger chemically, and the moths' digestive juices cannot break them down. Moth larvae put on a diet of modified wool quickly starve to death, even though a few nutritious food stains are added. Moncrieff predicts that when all wool is modified in this way, clothes moths will have to return to their primitive diet...
...night & day dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch-and-a-half cuffs on the sleeves, which could be replaced when frayed (a designer's fray quickly...
...flops were soon outnumbered by notable successes. Trim, clean-lined stoves, oil heaters, refrigerators and washing machines outsold their ugly predecessors and those of competitors. Streamlining, which had the laudable purpose of cutting down wind resistance in trains, cars, etc., became such a craze that it was even inflicted on such static objects as desk sets. Little by little the hardy, struggling band proved that their artistry could draw that prettiest curve of all to businessmen−an upward-sweeping sales curve...