Word: tubbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people's militia can stand against trained troops are gone forever. Government failure has been due, in the largest degree, to lack of trained officers and noncommissioned officers. Suspicious of the loyalty of the regular officers who joined them, led by left-wing writers, parlor pinks and Communist tub thumpers, the Government has been unable, even with considerable help from competent foreign advisers, after a year and one half of war, to develop an army capable of fighting on equal terms with Franco's men. Franco's battles have been fought and won with numerical inferiority...
...Review then told discreetly of an unnamed scientist who decided to pit a modern wetting agent against that anciently proverbial shedder of water-the plumage of a duck. He added a small amount of a wetting agent to a bath, put a duck in the tub. The duck, quickly soaked to the skin, became waterlogged, sank to its neck, floundering ignominiously. Reflecting that the duck might have caught a bothersome chill from this unprecedented experience, the scientist mercifully dispatched it, served it for dinner, with Burgundy and applesauce...
...disintegrating in the tub, inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. Women's clubs as long ago as 1920 were abuzz over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have...
...return to normalcy continued. Wison and his Utopian ideals were relegated to the dog house, and a sound man who would be sure to do the right things went into the White House. Not brilliant, but sound. This was the game where bootlegged liquor and bath-tub gin were given their first official recognition. They were pronounced insufficient...
...standard "iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...