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Anybody over a certain age in the United States had this exchange hundreds of times without ever once finding it strange. You walked in, somebody picked up a…
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The object itself is the thing that stops people. A shaft about a foot long, a set of plastic fins at one end for stability, and at the…
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It is one of the most vivid shared memories in American life: sitting on the wheel well with your back against the cab, or flat on the ribbed…
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There was a specific phrase for it, and anybody who was a child in America in that period knew whether or not it applied to them. A latchkey…
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Almost every one of these was the official advice at the time. Here are seventeen.
1. She Put the Baby to Sleep on Its Stomach Because That Was…
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A note, the money, and the clerk read the note. Here are ten.
1. Cigarettes, With a Note, and the Change Came Back in a Paper Bag
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