Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent both discomfort and danger, Dr. Peckham advises, wear proper sunglasses-"the darker the better." Manufacturers are satisfied if their glasses cut out one-third of the light rays; some ophthalmologists now suggest cutting out as much as 80% to 90%. (The Navy issued some sunglasses which cut out 88%.) Dark glasses need not make it harder to see objects in bright light; they may help when much of the light is unnecessary. Advertising boasts of filtering out "harmful rays," says Dr. Peckham, are meaningless. Under ordinary conditions, he continues, infrared and ultraviolet rays, both invisible, make little difference; visible...
...Holding up the florid tradition of black-hearted villainy are George Sanders and Henry Wilcoxon. Mature is suitably curly-haired and big-muscled as Samson. For all her plumage, including a gown of 2,000 peacock feathers (which DeMille ordered retouched for more color), Miss Lamarr's slitherings suggest a small-town belle making like a femme fatale...
...being played in London by his wife, Vivien Leigh. The character is not a prostitute, Sir Laurence explained patiently. "After the initial tragedy that affected her life, in her subsequent misguided search for beauty and romance, she came to lead an immoral life; but there was no intention to suggest that it was in any way professional...
Expendable Churches. But, says the FORUM, there is hope on the horizon. A handful of moderns are trying to restore to church architecture the pioneering role it once played. Their tentative answers to the problem (see picture supplement) may not seem equally inspiring to all worshipers, but they do suggest some brand-new approaches...
...customer a taste of a can of peas, succeeded in selling her an entire case instead of only one can. He persuaded a grocer on Manhattan's Third Avenue to keep a list of daily "specials" next to the telephone so that clerks taking orders by phone could suggest extra items. Concluded Cummings: salesmen need constructive sales suggestions from the front office, instead of a flood of letters demanding "more sales...