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Word: razors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recipe. In El Paso, the County Attorney considered a loaf of bread concocted by Baker Dionicio Suarez, ruled that it "did then & there contain added deleterious ingredient, to wit, a razor blade, which then & there rendered such article of food injurious to health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...caught in the final rush there is nothing like an electric razor or a shaving brush to save the day. Women in such a predicament can easily rush to the corner drug store for potions like Lilac Vegetalor or Old Spice Shaving Lather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Like Ford Convertibles But Usually Get Cuff Links | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...Harlem crap games. He was a partner in something called the Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...inroads of foreign mass production were new handicaps to the craftsmen of Solingen. But inch by inch Solingen fought its way back, and the steelmakers never forgot their faithful customers, many of them barbers who would not attack their customers' whiskers with anything but a Solingen razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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