Word: foolproofing
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...lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making up all faces of the same type. For these things, Perc...
...camera was developed for the Surgeon General's Office, which wanted rapid, perfect, foolproof pictures of surgical operations. The inventors have great hopes for it. At present the gadget is a typical military job: too expensive and too heavy. The "power-pack" which provides the current weighs 27 Ibs. But by spring, it may be streamlined for the civilian market into a lighter, more practical model...
...Foolproof Formula. The speech was one of Churchill's best: a masterly mixture of lofty patriotism and adroit politics. Well brushed, well tailored old metaphors ("We held aloft the flaming torch of free dom when all around the night was black as jet") clothed his sturdy Tory form ("We have endured patiently, almost silently, many provocations from that happily limited class of left-wing politicians to whom party strife is the breath of their nostrils"). By the time he reached his glowing peroration, 43 minutes later, the Tory leader had shown how he proposed to win the general election...
...sounded like a foolproof formula: "We have to finish the war. We have to bring the men home. We have to get our dear country on the move again and into its full swing of natural health and life." The Conservatives would promise no "easy, cheap-jack Utopia of airy phrases . . .windy platitudes." For Britons in & out of uniform, weary of restriction and regulation, the Party offered "a large release from the necessary bonds and controls which war conditions have imposed...
...land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky weather at low speed, stop, back up or go sideways when it comes up to trees or buildings. It is easy to fly and, except for the danger of collisions in the air, close to foolproof...