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...reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rough Stuff | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Brown, getting out the razor strop, wanted his colleagues to know that it hurt him more than it did Roosevelt. He was simply expressing the "grave concern among many of the friends of this fine young man over the fact that he is not here as much as they would like to see him." But the fact was, said he, that Roosevelt had only answered 60 out of 129 roll calls since last June; out of 65 important measures he had voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off to the Woodshed | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Recipe. In El Paso, the County Attorney considered a loaf of bread concocted by Baker Dionicio Suarez, ruled that it "did then & there contain added deleterious ingredient, to wit, a razor blade, which then & there rendered such article of food injurious to health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...caught in the final rush there is nothing like an electric razor or a shaving brush to save the day. Women in such a predicament can easily rush to the corner drug store for potions like Lilac Vegetalor or Old Spice Shaving Lather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Like Ford Convertibles But Usually Get Cuff Links | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...Harlem crap games. He was a partner in something called the Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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