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...beautiful Adams House sophomore who was working as an intern at the local public television station. "What an interesting restaurant," she said as we walked in, picking up the tail end of the morning's boxing seminar. I smiled and bid the counterman to throw the brisket on the slicer...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Sixth Avenue, On the Greasy Side | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

...buddy boy. For not all the air conditioning in the world can make you anything but a stench in my nostrils, yea an abomination unto my schnozz. You with your disposable lighters, I'll dispose of you saith the Lord. I'll run you through the Handi-Slicer, then I'll stuff you down the Disposall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Margaret O. Slicer West Chatham, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...area? The disease detectives had to find not a microbe but a man. In an epidemic of food poisoning by salmonella in Sioux City, Iowa, it was not the microbe but its means for spreading infection that had to be tracked down. The culprit was a machine-a meat slicer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: THE DISEASE DETECTIVES | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: King Coal's Return: Wealth and Worry | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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