Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, May 25, I noticed a full-page announcement featuring a Yale man ("Yale,'36") who says that wearing an Elgin watch is one of the traditions of his family. As a University of Minnesota man I would like to report on the regrettable lack of family traditions out here in the Middle West. Traditions are much undervalued: even opposed. Not long ago I heard another University of Minnesota man remark, "Can you imagine it-my whole family religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota...
...Readers Chase, Henry, Edwin, Trimble (TIME, May 25) and the countless others who disapprove but do not write think it is possible to keep children from seeing the human body unclothed? Must children and adults wear blinders when they visit the traveling Van Gogh Exhibit? Must we as parents and teachers strive to keep children innocent and at the same time expect them to find their way in the world when they leave the protection of the home? My six-year-old son looks at TIME pictures (news and advertising) regularly and of course sees the nude pictures along with...
...germicidal property of Hart light has one disadvantage. Duke Hospital surgeons must wear grotesque, hooded operating costumes, otherwise repeated exposure to the radiation would dangerously "sunburn" them. With their hoods they also wear goggles impervious to the radiation. This getup, admitted Dr. Hart, "is rather warm and uncomfortable. A more agreeable and adequate protection ... is now being developed...
...Mollie introduced her to a booker named Pete. "Mollie says, 'This is the new girl, Renee.' And I says, 'Hello.' And Pete says, 'Wanna work steady?' And I says, 'Yes, I do.' And he says, 'You know what you hafta wear?' And I says, 'Yeah, evening gowns. I got some...
...Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute diseases have almost died...