Word: faucet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trans parent plastic with a detachable nozzle on one end and an expansion bolt on the other. The whole thing weighs only two ounces. The user squirts toothpaste (about the same amount usually put on a toothbrush) into the nozzle, puts the other end into a wash basin faucet (it won't work on a Pullman car, not enough pressure). When the water is turned on, a jet of mixed water and toothpaste cleans the teeth. One shot of toothpaste is enough to last all around the mouth...
With his "corrected floor space" settled, the tenant turned to Schedule III and added up an arbitrary amount of floor space for "facilities and conveniences." A cold-water faucet in the hallway rated .25 square meters. Private flush toilets rated four square meters, non-flushing toilets only two. Adding up the "corrected" square meters of the three schedules and multiplying the sum by the fixed charge per meter, he arrived at his monthly rent...
...Open Faucet. On the West Coast, operators who had sworn they would not do business with the C.I.O.'s Harry ("The Nose") Bridges, came to an agreement with him in an aura of warmth and amiability. They had their fingers crossed, but all publicly agreed that The Nose was not such a bad joe after...
...three months and get some 265 idle ships moving. There were still a number of problems to clear up, chief of which were wage discussions with Harry Lundeberg's A.F.L. seamen, who had had no work since no ships sailed. Said Lundeberg: "We have heard that the faucet is open and we mean to get ours...
...Alexander Korda -based on Luigi Pirandello's difficult Henry IV. Says Welles: "So much first-rate talent is going in the direction of the literal. I don't even like the word 'documentary.' You can't go on proving that a rusty faucet is rusty and a dirty alley is dirty. They are using the camera as a recording instrument. I want to use it as an instrument of poetry...