Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chalk-white modern theatrical mask was stolen from the Germanic Museum late Friday afternoon, leaving professors and police baffled for a motive...
Professor Charles L. Kuhn, Curator of the museum, explained last night that the mask was really not too valuable, having been carved only recently by a New York man. Kuhn called the thievery the first in the museum in several years...
Police suspect that a member of a group of high-school students which inspected the exhibits earlier Friday afternoon may have taken the mask...
...Babies can catch emotional upsets as well as colds in the head. A smart parent with sniffles puts on a mask before picking up the baby. Exposures to adult emotions may harm him even more than "a few extra germs." Dr. Dunbar's advice: stop a few seconds outside the nursery door, and calm down...
Chuck Yeager could not see much, but he had plenty to do. Swiftly he checked the instruments, tried the controls and adjusted his oxygen mask. Outside he could hear the thunder of the B-29's great engines and feel the vibration as the bomber climbed higher & higher. He felt it wheel on a turn, and heard Major Cardenas' voice on the radio: "Am turning on downwind leg at 21,000 ft." Then the bomber wheeled again. "Am turning on the base leg," said Major Cardenas. "Five minutes to drop time...