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...fellow, Shephard patiently smiled at their accusations, told them they'd find they were making a mistake. He was just a middle-aged salesman who lived in Scotch Plains, N.J., he explained, and, as a matter of fact, had just taken on a new line of liquid run-stopper for ladies' stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Phantom Forger | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Tide Stopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Each year, hundreds of men stop up their brains and fill them with bith of vocabulary and grammar. Then they take Harvard's language requirement examination. If they pass, they pull the stopper and let what they have learned dribble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 594 Skiddoo | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...From the Greek thrombos (clot) and embolos (stopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Handle with Care | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...character began. "If Lowenstein can put on twenty pounds this summer, and if Moffie doesn't break a leg, our backs ought to be among the snapplest in the East, but of course with Godin out of the picture, I don't know where Stuffy will find another real stopper on the firing line. As for Bolles, of course, we don't need to worry--Jaakko has some very fine young freshmen coming up, you know...

Author: By Dombe Bastide, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 6/15/1949 | See Source »

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