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Word: beds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Nomads | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...speak for the average man, many of whom, I know will agree with me when I say that more often than not midweek holidays are a nuisance rather than a help. There is little one can do with one day to get a rest other than to go to bed for the day. With a three-day weekend all sorts of possibilities offer themselves: trips to the shore, mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...bed the Duke of Wellington slept in during the Waterloo campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal and Historic | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...London, Marion Lovell, a onetime chorine who had run to fat, got so mad she bounced up & down on her boardinghouse bed, finally broke it. When her landlady sued her, her solicitor pleaded: "She is rather a heavy woman; she will obviously need a fairly substantial bed." But Bouncer Lovell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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