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...temple. A roof of fresh green leaves sheltered a holy fire attended by a Brahman priest. There, while several thousand women chanted hymns, the ministers-to-be and constitution-makers passed in front of the priest, who sprinkled holy water on them. The oldest woman placed dots of red powder (for luck) on each man's forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Oh Lovely Dawn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gulliver in a Kimono | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...janitors moved in to sweep up, 41-year-old Howard Robard Hughes fired a parting blast: "When Senator Brewster saw he was fighting a losing battle against public opinion, he folded up and took a run-out powder . . . headed for the backwoods of Maine. There was no reason for the other Senators ... to continue his losing battle ... if he was too cowardly to stay here and face the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Duel under the Klieg Lights | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder and lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Powder burns around the single shot in the temple clearly indicated suicide, according to Francis Dube, Carroll County medical examiner. Police said that Mayo's self destruction marked the first anniversary of the death of his mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Dean Shoots Self With Antique Weapon | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

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