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...arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know. She had known Lily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 22 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...that this was a stunt, said that wireless electric power might not be commercially practical for many years. But the Federal Communications Commission is already planning to reserve part of the postwar radio spectrum for wireless heating and cooking.) > An electric heat lamp. Resembling a flat-lensed sealed beam headlight, with a 750-watt bulb inside, the device generated so much heat that bacon & eggs could be cooked on it. Such lamps are now used to dry paint on military equipment in three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on the Future | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed a wrench, roared a sailorful of oaths as he battered off a headlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: The Peppery Mr. Tilt | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Through the light snowfall, he saw the Pennsylvanian's headlight coming toward him at some 70 miles an hour. Suddenly, from a passing freight train, a half-ton cylinder head was blown from the locomotive, landed squarely on the track before the oncoming express. From his tower Schwartzkopf saw the Pennsylvanian's headlight weaving and rocking. The locomotive left the rails, skidded on its side 200 feet to crash into the control tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Crash at Dunkirk | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Parade | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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