Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sterilizing lamps. Already used in air conditioning and to sterilize dishes, these lamps will soon be available in small sizes with many new uses: on toothbrush racks they will keep the brushes germfree; in shoe trees they will kill fungi, prevent athlete's foot...
...grey -haired, jut-jawed Alvin George Brush sometimes feels like the old-woman-in-the-shoe. As board chairman of American Home Products Corp., he runs one of the biggest and the fastest-growing drug, food and household goods companies in the U.S. Its 5,000 products range from auto paint to penicillin...
...married guy now. Several weeks ago we had all the details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...
...paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
...Churchill's oblique remark was welcomed in the U.S. with glee and resentment, depending on where the shoe pinched. It also served to emphasize one vast difference and one great interdependence of U.S. and British politics...