Word: inserted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
...Allowed dapper Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, famed Wet, to insert in the Congressional Record a sermon of his great-grandfather, famed Dry. The sermon's subject was national defense...
...With the cooperation of the heads of the 28 colleges in New England the committee proposes to insert into the curricula of the colleges vocational work of a sort that will enable the doubtful undergraduate to consider the various fields of vocational activity in the light of his own tastes and abilities, and thereby, guided by advice of men in the field which he prefers, make a wiser choice of a life-work than he might otherwise do. This establishment in the college curricula of vocational work must be very gradual, but the plan was proposed to the representatives...
Pearl Maker. At the Sesquicentennial Exposition there is a $350,000 "pearl pagoda," put up to advertise the artificially cultivated pearls of Kokichi Mikimoto, 68, multimillionaire. He employs hundreds of men to insert a tiny particle of foreign matter within the shells of individual pearl oysters. Such a foreign body irritates the oyster to cover the particle with pearl material, a process that somewhat resembles the formation of a felon around a sliver in a finger. Kokichi Mikimoto employs 500 Japanese girls and many a man to go diving for the pearl oysters, hazardous occupation. Last week he debarked...
...Insert coin. Hold personal puff beneath the tube. Then pull the lever...