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Wide-shouldered, hairy-chested William Nassaur, whose Courtley, Ltd. shaving soaps, lotions, talcs, and bubble baths had already deodorized and sweetened thousands of U.S. males, got set last week to waft his perfume worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Sniff, Sniff | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...moaning female voice singing of the woes of Waban women will waft itself over the Crimson Network tomorrow night as the College station imports the entire cast of the Wellesley Junior Show to the Leverett Junior Common Room for a broadcast at 10 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Sulks as Network Brings Waban Chirpers Here | 11/18/1942 | See Source »

...title is derived from Harlow's first disastrous spring practice at a Harvard, indifferent to the point of hostility. It was in 1935, and according to Harlow, "I was stunned. . . . Something was wrong. These boys evidently expected their coach to brew some magic formula to waft the other team away before each game in the fall. . . . They didn't need coaching; it was a matter of psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Claims Individual Psychology Reason For Lack of Harvard Indifference on Gridiron | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

...valve gas in landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...shade their published price lists. In theory, all customers have paid the same price per ton of steel, irrespective of the size of the order. In practice, big buyers like the automobile companies have beaten down quotations as much as $8 per ton.* Last week in an attempt to waft away the dense cigar smoke that envelops this practice, Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. made a bold move... Opening its books for second-quarter business, the No. 3 steel company of the 'land issued price lists with fixed discounts for quantity orders ranging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prices & Bases | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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