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Word: soaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Better Bricks | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...walnuts (France exported $4,861,000 worth to the U. S. last year) 4¢ per pound unshelled, 12¢ shelled; precious and semiprecious stones (not including pearls), 10% ad valerem on uncut stones; perfumes containing alcohol 75% ad valorem plus 40¢ a pound; perfumes not containing alcohol 75% ad valorem; soaps and soap preparations from 15% to 30% ad valorem. These are the chief French exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Discrimination | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Mechanical geniuses congratulated themselves that they and their kind have now provided society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries of nuts chewing gum candy weighing stamps matches cigarets hair combs soap perfume shoe shines music electric shocks crude cinema horoscopes telephoning cooked food photographs drinking cups handkerchiefs napkins comfort subway rides soft drinks cosmetics name plates Other mechanical geniuses wondered if fortunes might not be made by furnishing society with coin-in-the-slot dispensaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sodamat | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap, Crisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Advertisers | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Today Harvard is again fortunate in her leadership. She again is making history. As yesterday it was classical dogma which was to be beaten down, so today it is the dogma of the nursery, that dogma which demands the professorial apron strings, face cloth, and Ivory soap. That dogma has turned undergraduate energy and responsible initiative into the great field described so often by the word collegiate. It has lead to a condition where a certain Southern university, which is still holding its classes in a discarded hotel, is campaigning vigorously for a million dollar stadium. Undergraduates and Faculty-alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LEADS | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

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