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Word: waterproofing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Under her right eye, Eleanor Holm wears a waterproof beauty patch. She is so pretty that Ziegfeld offered her a job in the Follies which her mother persuaded her not to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swimmers | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...affected by changes in relative humidity, that shoes swell, pinching tender feet, when wet weather approaches. By using special tanning materials, he proved to shoe manufacturers that this foot-squeeze can be reduced two-thirds. He also demonstrated to shoemen that by proper tanning they could make a shoe waterproof from the outside, at the same time allow perspiration to evaporate from the inside 80% as fast as from a bare foot. After devising methods for measuring resilience, porosity, density of leather, he organized Properties & Uses of Leather, a national committee to study the foot comfort of U. S. citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Leather & Weather | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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