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Word: shavings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preacher Lee continued through the night, shouting into the microphone when he retired to the vestry to change his clothing, attend to needs of nature, shave, relax on the rubdown table. Some 200 worshipers stuck it out with him all that night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Marathons | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...manage his epiglottis so that nothing but air is sucked into his lungs. Otherwise, he would certainly develop pneumonia and die. To reduce the danger of germs getting into his lungs, his two Chinese nurses wear gauze over their mouths and noses when they brush his teeth, shave him, wipe his nose, or deal otherwise with his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life in a Respirator | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times now. He has a big green bag, a bottle of ink, an extra pen, and a glasses case next to him. And he needs a shave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Thirteen behind the Tiger, Allen barely nosed out the Big Green contender, David Berliner, who "gave him a close shave" with 22 strokes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Entry Runnerup in Intercollege Shaving Meet | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...modern women's magazines with his Ladies' Home Journal in 1889, he opened a course that was to be profitably traveled by many a U. S. editor and publisher. Great days for the Journal and its rivals continued right up to Depression, when advertisers began to shave budgets, talk about avoiding duplication in their use of mass monthlies. Pounding down the stretch in last year's race for cash and readers, three of them each rang up more than 2,500,000 circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ladies' Line-up | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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