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Word: waxing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic at this discomforting anti-Beacon Hillism. This preaching tendency will no doubt be modified as the run goes on; Monday night's presentation was obviously a tryout...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 5/8/1935 | See Source »

...children. Since Dr. Allen showed the way, women who lack progestin can buy it from druggists. Manufacturers get their supplies from the ovaries of pigs. Last week Dr. Allen retailed the important news, fresh from Danzig, that Dr. Adolph Butenandt had discovered a way of making progestin from the wax of soy beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Many Meetings | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...Milwaukee, Wis., toothless L. M. Crouch stuffed wax in his gums; hardened the wax by holding cold water in his mouth; from this mold made a base of litharge, plaster of Paris and mercurochrome; stuck into it pieces of a porcelain dinner plate; filed the pieces smooth with emery paper and had a serviceable set of false teeth, with which to attend a Boy Scout dinner. Last week, he announced that the china teeth, in service since February, would be presented to a museum when he gets the set he has ordered from a dentist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Teeth | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...food and clothing, many of the skeletons were almost perfectly preserved. U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh, something of an archeologist himself, thought the find might prove to be among the most important in a decade. Dr. Shear planned to ship one of the skeletons, protected by wax, to anthropologists of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History in the hope that its exact age and race affiliation could be determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...production; direction (Frank Capra); performances (Claudette Colbert & Clark Gable); adaptation (Robert Riskin). Columbia got two more, best musical scoring and sound recording, with One Night of Love. Best original story was Manhattan Melodrama by Arthur Caesar. Best shorts were The Tortoise and the Hare, La Cucaracha, City of Wax. Best song was "The Continental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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