Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass after another climbed Author Kaulback as spring melted the ice barriers in the rocky gorges. What finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted...
Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18,751,000 to start with, of hundreds of millions in future*-this year's prelude to a general World War pension bill scheduled for next year. And the Senate made a gesture even more expensive toward the farm vote. When economy-minded Senators proposed, in committee, to shave...
George Downing who set a new Crimson mark of 49 feet last week will be out to shave his own record as well as the dual meet mark of 47 ft. 8 3-4 inches. Supported by Howie Mendel and Nat Heard he should lead Harvard to a sweep in its strongest event...
...Coon points out that in judging racial differences, laymen are likely to be unduly influenced by styles in clothing, hair and beards. He prints a picture of Neanderthal Man as he might look with a haircut, clean shave and modern clothes (see cut, p. 51), showing that he might get by today on the tough side of town without attracting attention as an oddity...
...their crankshafts and cylinders and it is nonmagnetic. Before she shoves off on her voyages, the clothing of her crew will be carefully searched for metal buttons, nailed shoes which might throw off her compasses by a hair. Big problem for the crew: where to get razors which will shave whiskers, will not shave the accuracy of compass readings...