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...hair and clothes. 2) Since mosquitoes have a preference for ankles, wear two pairs of socks or stockings. 3) To protect the face, use a 50% alcoholic solution of thymol, or oil of cloves in lanolin. 4) If bitten, apply immediately a weak solution of ammonia, washing soda, or soap and vinegar. A cut onion will also relieve the sting. 5) If the bite is painful, swab it with iodine in glycerin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mosquito Bites | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied by a hand-driven crank. When the redheaded, hot-tempered Simon Lake and his cousin Bart paddled it down the Shrewsbury River in New Jersey in 1894, Bart opened the valves, the submarine sank, a stream of water squirted in through a neglected bolthole and hit him in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Undersea Anecdotes | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...night the pump master bought two cases of beer, four cases of soda water and gave a dance in his front yard. The musicians got lost in the jungle but Garcia played the fiddle. It was a dark night. Manuel had brought Carlos a pair of tight, shiny shoes as a present from Texas. Carlos, used to running barefoot, slipped on a narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central American Anecdote | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Soda Water to Shanghai. Otway Hebron Chalkley, born in Richmond some 50 years ago (he is even bashful about his exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Fourth | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...yellow satin. A three-piece swing band furnished the proper notes in the clubhouse bar. Waiters in white jackets provided "curb service" to the boxes, seats were equipped with gadgets to hold glasses and plates right side up during the excitement of the races. There was even a soda fountain for teetotalers. But the paddock was the last word-a sound proof, roofed amphitheatre where 3,500 spectators chattered between races without disturbing the horses. Hollywood idea men had originally planned to have a revolving paddock, but the plan was abandoned when someone reminded them that the horses might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hollywood Track | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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