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...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors' Fair | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...President signed NRA codes for furniture; garages & parking; fireworks; excelsior; asphalt & mastic tile; waste manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...Daniel said: Are ye so foolish . . . that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel? . . . Separate these two [elders] and I will examine them. So ... he called one of them and said: . . . Tell under what tree thou sawest them. . . . He said: Under a mastic tree. . . . He commanded that the other should come and said: . . . Under what tree didst thou take them? And he answered: Under a holm tree. . . . With that all the assembly cried out . . . and rose up against the two elders (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Susanna At Albany | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...birds, though he has already learned to fly many times faster. Determined to learn their secret, Leonard W. Bonney, wealthy pioneer of the air, grown middle-aged since his first flight with Orville Wright in 1910, caught two seagulls in a steel trap padded with cloth at Mastic, L. I. For three years he studied them, scrutinizing every feather on their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Aerodynamics | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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