Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...Poland, the Balkans, France and China last week the tone, the temper, and even the social and political contours of a new freedom were taking shape. Well might Americans rub the sleep from their eyes and wonder what this new freedom in Europe and Asia would mean to their old freedom. It was too soon to tell. But one fact was inescapable: the world war was not over, but the postwar world was here...
There are now 16,000,000 U.S. women with jobs, 3,500,000 of them in war industry. In a factory job which does not require strength, a contented woman worker can turn out half again as much work as a man. The rub: keeping the women contented. So prone are they to complain, get sick, ache, stay home, quit, that many a factory supervisor will be glad when his women are paid off for good...
...repellent? Yes? Then use Toujours Gai; it keeps the mosquitoes away. Remember, rub it in your delicate skin each evening as the sun goes down. Thank...
...land (long in the public domain) is owned by the Federal Government, that this is somehow a threat to private enterprise. And even pushovers will wonder how Cassandra Cherne reaches his last-chapter reversal. He concludes : "America will hit the shoals of unemployment and free itself. It will rub along the reefs of depression and then reach new levels of production...