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Word: haired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poodle-haired Mary (South Pacific) Martin faced water-pinched New York's Dry Friday like a good pressagent. When it came time for her famous onstage shampoo scene (I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair), a fellow actor poured a gallon of club soda into the makeshift shower above her head, and saved a gallon of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...number and variety of their costumes and disguises are countless . . . This eccentricity makes the problem of learning the names of a new class a formidable one for a man. He sees the girls on Monday morning looking like the wrath of God with hair uncombed and overalls pulled on over their pajamas, and gets to know them thus. He sees them again on Friday afternoon looking more glamorous than Conover models and doesn't recognize them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Male & Females | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Miss Marcia Shohet, a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence, arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon as the attest of three Law School students. The first girl to appear in response to the plan, she complained about the parched-pipe situation in the city and admitted "I haven't washed my hair since Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Shower-Bather Gets No Soap | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

Milfred Yant is a man with a remarkable air of respectability; it is accentuated by his pudgy figure, his middle-aged stoop, his brownish hair and open countenance. Back in 1935, as a result, he had little difficulty in selling acres & acres of steep, arid, brush-covered land in the barren hills above Los Angeles County's Placerita Canyon. The tract looked like a rest home for Gila monsters, but he got $1,950 an acre for it-just $1,900 more than he had paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...truck version of its Stratocruiser, now in quantity production in Seattle. The C-97-B will carry more cargo (53,000 Ibs.) higher (30,000 ft), faster (300 m.p.h.) and farther (3,750 mi.) than Tunner asked for, but its largest cargo door is a hair too small for the Army truck. Last week, Boeing engineers were busy designing a new door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Two for Good Measure | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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