Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly "blast the weed" (smoke). Two or three long puffs usually suffice after a while to produce a light jag. The smoker is then said to be "high" or "floating." When he has smoked a reefer down to a half-inch butt, he carefully conserves it in an empty match box. In this condition it is known, in Mexican, as a chicharra, or in English, as a "roach...
...extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...
Trickiest stunt Wolff used was to split a full-faced picture down the middle, reverse one half and match it with the same half by montage, so that the picture was composed of two right sides or two left. The right side, he found, tends to be dominant, gives the face its most characteristic expression (the mouth usually is most expressive...
...else, they must be emotionally well-balanced. The strain of a war patrol is too great for the man with quirks, for sourpusses or incurable practical jokers. Thus sub men have an air of pipe-smoking imperturbability and quiet good humor that no other group of fighting men can match...
Died. Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, 81, famed surgeon, onetime president of the American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...