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Word: lanolor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...Each of us has a bit of Walter Mitty in him. We like to feel cut in on the mysteries of nuclear physics and biochemistry. Few of us will ever find uranium in our vegetable gardens, but we can all have razor blades treated with duridium, shoe polish with lanolor, warfarin for killing rodents, irium in our toothpaste. We can even make topsoil in the backyard with fluffium. As a wag put it not long ago, all we need now is bullium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Let's Kick This Around | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

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