Word: unevennesses
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...McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
...professional-looking revue that uses an amateur-night technique. All sorts of people have "entered" individual songs and sketches in the show; and whether from too many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that...
...started down from the dizzy and dangerous peak of inflation without breaking its neck. Food and apparel prices had come down 3.8%, wholesale prices of manufactured goods about 5% and the total cost of living 1.1%. In short, prices which had gyrated upward in giddy, uneven swings were coming down in an orderly manner. The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter...
...strong Cornell team smeared the Crimson cavalrymen, 24 to 4, last Saturday in one of the most uneven polo matches ever seen at Ithaca...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. In parts of an uneven doubleheader, Walt Disney is at his inventive best; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the soundtrack (TIME...