Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dent, the first widely distributed tooth powder to include carbamide (urea) and dibasic ammonium phosphate (TIME, Feb. 14), had climbed, so its makers claimed, to fourth place in sales among all U.S. dentifrices, surpassed only by Colgate, Ipana and Pepsodent. Amm-i-Dent, a dentifrice supposed to head off tooth decay, had indisputably set the trade's teeth on edge...
Unexpected Slip. The ceremony began. Mr. Summers, the leading businessman, was sworn in; the old black box containing the lottery slips was placed on a stool; the list of heads of families was read out. So familiar was the ritual that folks hardly listened at all. In the old days there had been a recital by the lottery official, but this time each family head just came up to draw his slip...
When Zanini, the last family head, drew his slip, there was a long breathless pause. "Who's got it?" Someone replied, "It's Hutchinson. It's Bill...
...middle of a cleared space; she held her hands out desperately, but the villagers moved in. Old Man Warner kept saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, "It isn't fair," but soon the crowd was upon her. A stone hit her on the head. Other stones came hurtling through...
President Conant has written a pamphlet on his experience as head of the general education course, "The Growth of the Experimental Sciences" (Natural Sciences 4), it was announced yesterday...