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Word: bathes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator had given them interviews even while he was taking a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Know! | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

When they returned from breakfast the duck; which they had left paddling around in the bath tub, had disappeared as mysteriously as it came. Leboeuf and Rittman hinted darkly at a plot, and said that investigation had revealed that "a certain party" had purchased one live duck for 96 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NONDESCRIPT DUCK APPEARS, DISAPPEARS IN ADAMS SUITE | 10/25/1938 | See Source »

Last week Colonel James Alfred Moss, president general of the U.S. Flag Association, piped up, explained all. The answer: "...If eating at a table, talking over the telephone, playing cards, cooking a meal or taking a bath, standing at attention would be forced and unnatural and therefore should not be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Holland-America Line motorship Noordam, with a holdful of reasons why her maiden voyage should be considered an important item of marine intelligence. Second unit of a new Holland-America fleet,* she enjoyed the distinction of being the only transatlantic ship ever built with a private bath in every passenger cabin. A neat combination of freighter and passenger ship, her high-set midship superstructure is calculated to provide first-class passenger comfort at tourist rates ($253 round trip), while her low-slung fore & aft cargo decks make money on freight. The Noordam cost $2,300,000, can carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Dutchman | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters in an old laboratory, is said by irreverent students never to take a bath. He got his Nobel Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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