It was made from coal, air and water and could be fashioned into fibers as strong as steel and as fine as a spiders web. When nylons went on sale to the general public in 1940, tens of thousands of women stormed past shop windows displaying test tubes and beakers to grab a pair of the miraculous run-proof stockings
Theres no getting around it: without exaggeration, this is one of the most depressing sentences that Ive ever had to write about baseball in a dozen years of coverage
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All of which can be increased by caffeine intake
