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...toothbrush with a hollow handle, through which water can be sucked for rinsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...east. The clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...teaching, and for a unified policy in a department that is groping in the past. But while the department has stood still, the world has moved forward to new techniques, new forms, new social forces. The recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery when the one man that can save the department from its past must leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAGNATION IN THE POGG | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

...John Garner's old buddies and political campaign managers is Roy Miller, lobbyist for the Texas sulfur interests. Mr. Miller last December started a Garner-for-1940 boom with a celebration near Mr. Garner's birthplace in Coon Soup Hollow, Tex. In January, the Vice President did not stop Representative Milton West of Brownsville from putting into the Congressional Record the nominating speech in which Roy Miller said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...wrap a chicken they now stretch a latex bag over the top of a hollow metal cylinder. From the bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryovac | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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