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Word: wafers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When swords went out of fashion, Solingen's craftsmen turned their skill to the making of bayonets, cutlery, scissors, surgical instruments, straight razors, and even wafer-thin, newfangled safety razor blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Unavoidable Delay | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...scribes and coaches are to be believed, Yale will win today by a wafer thin margin. Seven out of eight polled last night gave the Elis the nod--but not by much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newsmen, Coaches Predict Yale Win by Small Margin | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical Collator Corp., of New York City, has a machine whose metal fingers simultaneously snatch sheets in proper sequence from as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Mechanical Office | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...scrappy, well-prepared Springfield team fought its way to a 59 to 58 upset win over the Crimson in the Indoor Athletic Building last night to keep intact the Varsity's record of wafer-thin margin games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springfield Stuns Crimson Quintet | 2/11/1948 | See Source »

...London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Is So Rare | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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