Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sorts of baths and sprays cover the floor of the hydrotherapy or bathing room. A specially constructed V-shaped "sitz" bath accomodates a pulled groin when an injured player settles his posterior into it. Two tin bath-tubs resembling those in vogue about 1875 are used to cool or heat a hurt leg, their whirlpools providing a gentle massage which increases the blood circulation. A number of pranksters have had epic water battles with the "fire hose" machine, used by the trainers to message pulled backs with its high-pressure stream...
...speed in building, the Navy today has work afoot in ten of its own yards, more than 125 yards of private contractors. Before its yard expansion is finished, it will have laid out $800,000,000 for plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...
...couple years before when he was in a tight squeeze-generous, square-shooting John Roxborough gave Julian Black, Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...
Meanwhile in London, mercurial Delegate de Madariaga defended Romains for past Nazi contacts, gurgled from the bottom of his hot bath: "After all Stalin had some contacts with the Nazis...
...haven't had a shower since last Saturday or a sponge bath since last Monday," she sobbed on the shoulder of a hay-fever blessed CRIMSON reporter, "but the Adams House Senior I came down to see won't let me use his bathtub or his shower...