Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Racine, Wis. last week S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. (Johnson's Wax) dedicated a building with little visible means of support. A 156-ft. glass & brick tower, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as the latest thing in laboratories. The building has no foundation directly under its outside walls. Instead, the foundation is a central core of concrete embedded 54 ft. into the ground. The core, which contains elevators, heating pipes, etc., supports the 15 floors in cantilever fashion, thus allows maximum daylight illumination on all sides. Said Wright: "Up in the air is the natural place...
...wax wrathy, but excuse...
...string thy fiddle, wax...
...York City," unemotionally reported that of the 100,000 children working in the factories many were permitted "to take home enough material to do extra work, after the regular ten-hour day, in order to earn more than the standard $3 per week." But Harper's could wax indignant about the plight of Vassar girls who had no clothes closets in their dormitory, and for whom Matthew Vassar had prescribed "two nails on the walls of their rooms, one for their school dress and one for their best dress...
...Hand. In Toronto, at the Canadian National Exhibition, a thief stole wax hands from two dummies in the "Crime Does Not Pay" exhibit...