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Kira's radical proposal is more down to earth: the seat should be just 9 inches high v. about 16 inches for the conventional toilet. For better hygiene, he advocates washing jets fore and aft. The seat itself would be wider, padded, and come with built-in push-up bars, paper holder and electric flush controls. And while on the subject, Kira thinks that the urinal could stand more study. Working with everything from splash diagrams to trajectory charts, the study group proposes a cavern-shaped urinal, suggests that it might pull down from the wall above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Examining the Unmentionables | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...those who refuse to be harnessed at all, there is the classic movie-and-model dodge of adhesive tape (in Paris, the mannequins used Scotch tape) as well as small push-up forms that are pasted on under the bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Support for the Needy | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...realistic. Harvard is not training people to do chemistry on a desert island, nor is it graduating men to practice law in out space. The library is part of the world in which people work, and an examination that rejects it is just a kind of one-handed push...

Author: By Stephen F., | Title: FROM THE ARMCHAIR | 5/14/1962 | See Source »

Presumably gridiron candidates, like soldiers, execute their push-up more constructively when they are guided by an expert. And presumably William J. Bingham '16 will emerge from his southern hideaway long enough to appoint a calisthenics director...

Author: By J. K. Weiss, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

Struck retaliated with a push-up and the Crimson steadily increased their margin. During the last half, Dartmouth repeatedly missed golden opportunities after breaking through the Fesler defense which invariably gained possession of the ball off the back-board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Surprises Dartmouth in Revenge Tilt | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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