Word: sunburned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the sunburn of the day handling a pitchfork at a hayrack...
Russ Parker wears a terrific sunburn now, you'll notice. He just can't keep away from the water and from all reports is batting 1.000 on these weekend jaunts...
...went sculling on the Charles until the hands and backs became too sore. Sunday was spent on the water by a couple of other men. As part of the Harvard Outing Club, this group went canoeing on the Sudbury River with some husky gals from Simmons. A fine sunburn was acquired...
...paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol, brought it back to the U.S. But his family took a low view of it all, so George, with about $10,000 of his own money, went to Sweden, where he could start his business on less...
Peace Business. It is peacetime prospects that really excite George Gallowhur. In a healthy, antiseptic postwar world he sees mankind free of sunburn (Skol), free of bug bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic; walls in breweries and bakeries painted with pigments that combat yeast- mold; swimming pools and yachts protected from algae (a small boat, painted with patches of plain and Puratized paint, "grew a beard" in the plain sections, was "cleanshaven" where Puratized...