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...used a Schick Shaver for nearly three years now, and not only find it impossible to cut myself with it while shaving, but even when deliberately experimenting with it in every conceivable way, find that it simply will not cut anything but the whiskers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...special alloys to the study of actual shaving conditions by means of a shaving "clinic," organized among the Fellows of Mellon Institute. The findings are soon to be published in full. . . . According to these results the shaving problems of different individuals vary in character, but correct technics benefit all shavers. These include the taking of sufficient time for facial preparation before shaving (two minutes is the minimum time . . . ); shaving with a slanting stroke as far as possible; mixing of a little soap with latherless cream if the latter is the medium preferred by the shaver; shaving with the blade tilted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...Schick Dry Shaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...carbon black for lacquers, which, ground to particles .000001 centimetre in diameter, is so black that it makes other blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve men everyday to learn what he can about beard problems. ¶ At Harmarville, Pa., near Pittsburgh Gulf Refining Co.'s research subsidiary has built a group of roomy, attractive buildings for its colony of scientists. Most of the touring businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Industrial Insides | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...party, but this year for the first time giving the old ones headaches, are Canada's Socialists, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation led by that poor organizer but "Great Humanitarian of the Prairie Provinces." Mr. James Shaver Woodsworth. Opposed to violence, but favoring a non-bloody Canadian revolution in the sense that the State would nationalize all property except farms and homes, C. C. F. ran 118 candidates last week in Canada's 245 constituencies, offering the nation its choice of Socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: New Viceroy; General Election | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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