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Word: bath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Accompanied only by two staff officers, General the Viscount Gort stepped into a small boat and went home in soldierly silence. Chief of Staff General Sir John Greer Dill greeted him grimly. King George called him to Buckingham Palace to receive the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Promised Lord Gort: "We will meet them again and the next time victory will be ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Battle to the Sea | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Horace Wells was not "Dazzled with hopes of a fortune. . . ." If he had been, he would have patented his discovery as he had patented two previous commercial discoveries, a coal sifter and a shower bath. When urged to patent this discovery, Wells declared, "No, let it be as free as the air we breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...private yards, six have been put up since 1937. Two work exclusively for the Navy-Bath Iron Works (destroyers) and Electric Boat Co. (submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Billion-Dollar Feast | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact, is one in which Dotty uses a bit of a dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute for her sarong...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

...Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower, etc.), filling station, restaurant, laundry, grocery store and trailer grounds. Monthly payroll for the camp's 27 employes runs about $1,000. In the busy fall-winter-spring season it grosses $250 on good days, last year netted a comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Motels | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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