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Word: mahopac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guinea pigs, the foundation, cooperating with the Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Weapon | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Thomas E. Dewey nearly had a skeleton staff when a speedboat capsized on New York's Lake Mahopac. Briefly into the drink: the governor's executive secretary and the secretary to the governor's secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Guests of the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City were Errol Leslie Flynn, of Mulholland Farm, Hollywood, and Edward Joseph Flynn, of Lake Mahopac, N.Y., and The Bronx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Society Note | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Chairman and dairy farmer, won a court order ejecting the superintendent at his farm near Mahopac, N.Y. The two had been squabbling ever since Flynn gave Franklin D. Roosevelt what the superintendent complained was the best cow on the farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Slaps | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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