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Word: plastically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that point on, the story follows the accepted G-Man course: a hunt, punctuated by machine-gun fire and climaxed by the villain's death, this time in a theatre. It even includes two other familiar episodes culled from the Dillinger saga, the siege in a roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama the most exciting furnished by the cinema in the past three years, will merely serve to emphasize the obvious fact that a picture written to a pattern can seem all the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...last year, 30,000 this year. From soy bean oil Mr. McCarroll's assistants make lacquer for Ford motor cars. They claim that soy bean lacquer is better than du Font's Duco. From meal which remains after oil is extracted from soy beans, Ford chemists make plastic parts for car bodies. Chemists are now working on bodies made of laminated sheet steel and soy bean plastic. All the equipment needed to process soy beans at a profit fits into an ordinary barn. At the Century of Progress last year the Ford Co. exhibited a barn so outfitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Farm & Factory | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Said Dr. Sheehan: "When a competent plastic surgeon performs this sort of an operation no scar remains which a photograph will reveal. Only a sharp eye can detect the line of the incision in vivo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgeon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...same, said he, is true for almost any plastic operation-removal of moles, repair of harelips, remodeling of noses, reconstruction of jaws, replacement of fingernails, destruction of scars, counterfeiting of fingertips. For fingertips he uses skin from the abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgeon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...other words," said he, "a competent plastic surgeon, if given time, can alter every mark by which human beings are ordinarily identified. The advantage which the police still have in dealing with criminals is that the criminal is always in a hurry. And this work, to be well done, takes time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgeon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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