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Word: bulbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Burns at Mare Island | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...college of the 100 classics) opened his Odyssey and called the class to order. His students, sprawled around the library in Service Club No. 3 at Fort George G. Meade, Md., were 24 privates and officers, including a couple of majors. Teacher John O. Neustadt called first on a bulb-nosed little buck private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Books at Camp | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Bulb-nose again: "Because home always assumes a degree of exaggerated glamor when you're away from it. You can at least keep your illusions much better if you never go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Books at Camp | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Sleepy. In Thomaston, Ga., John Meier headed for bed, twisted an electric bulb to put out the light, dropped the bulb, cut his hands, stepped on it, cut his feet, stooped to pick out the glass, blacked his eye on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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