Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hahn Lawyer, stalwart S. Lawrence Miller, grinned. "In short," he suggested, "she has a face like a mask and the rest of her is like a balloon...
...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...seriously, the College can do nothing but good by airing all comment, both adverse and laudatory which may occur from time to time in regard to this painting. No harm can come to great things through the mouthings of little men and there is only benefit when an artificial mask of excellence is torn away by the competent critic...
...some time past I have noticed in TIME some earmarks of antiSemitism, but it is not my habit to rush into print. However, I could not pass by in silence your last issue (Oct. 15) where at least one of your editors seems to have thrown off the mask...
...pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra hose line with which to wet down the drilling surface. The men dislike using either, however, because the gas mask is uncomfortable and the hose line means extra work." South Africa has devised the best remedy. A vacuum pumping system suctions the dust away...