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Word: shavings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Tin Baron's Flight | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...Cadillac, put it through stiff road tests. Combined with a powerful new (and still secret) automatic transmission, the engine has already proved that it can cut gas consumption from 29% to 40%, depending on speed. G.M.'s present research chief, Charles L. McCuen, believes it can shave $2.5 billion a year from U.S. motorists' fuel bills. It can be put into mass production as soon as war restrictions ease enough to permit the huge retooling required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: G. M.'s Answer | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...burglar stopped long enough to shave and take a bath, but took nothing else from the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysterious Thief Raids Winthrop; Bathes, Steals Clothes and Money | 4/11/1951 | See Source »

...went traveling, and loved the friendly gas station men, and the clean, convenient motels (they were a new idea in 1938), and the handy lunch counters. I even enjoyed listening to the radio commercials and watching the Burma-Shave advertisements go by--at first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Rip, Away 13 Years, Finds America Escaped Painful Changes | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Last week Eighth Army headquarters announced that General McClure had been relieved. One of General Ruffner's first orders directed the 2nd Division's officers to shave their beards. Three weeks ago McClure had ordered them to grow beards. His idea was to make identification at night easier. Explained a division spokesman: "Under the McClure scheme, some sections were to grow chin-whiskers, Some the Lincoln style, and headquarters men full beards. I rather think it was a morale gesture, too­giving the men something to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMAND: Third Boss | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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