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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drenched Duck | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miss Jaffray & Japan | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lungs for Old | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning was not in the cards. Sure enough, the boilers burst and blew him back to the surface. In an episode which comes near to being pure Mark Twain he almost got tied down to a pretty French girl, but he left her because if he stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent at Sea | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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