Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face...
Harvard misogynists, currently avoiding the powder-puff contingent by hiding in the stacks of Widener or staying in their rooms all day, are fighting a losing battle. Thus it is that even the pages of the CRIMSON, hitherto strictly a man's paper, will soon bear the by-lines of some of our more talented sister students...
...Yard this summer will lack the usual atmosphere of powder-puff lethargy and will be even more crowded than it is during regular term-time. Transients from Smith, Vassar, and other girls' colleges, as well as school-teachers from everywhere, will make Harvard as near co-ed as it could possibly be without a revolution...
...Puff-eyed from lack of sleep, Wertenbaker went straight from LaGuardia field into a session with Dave Hulburd, Chief of Correspondents, spent all next day with TIME'S Foreign News and World Battlefronts editors working the things he had learned into this week's TIME...
Some things in Mr. Nelson's pastorate were still in a mess indeed. Robert R. Guthrie, chief of the textile, clothing & equipage division, resigned in a huff, let out a puff that hit front pages...