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Word: flushes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snell, among other things, of attempt to deceive by the use of excessive gasket-maker to disguise the damage done to the engine head, by leaving the motor running upon delivery of the car to conceal the fact that he had worn down the battery, by suggesting a "motor-flush" cure-all when the engine still rau poorly after all his repairs, and by "general lack of respect for the intelligence of the customer or her agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Bares Fraud By Local Repairman | 3/20/1942 | See Source »

Last week, though the first flush of the boom was over, the shark business still looked good. Galeorhinus males were selling for a handsome $1,200 a ton at the pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sharks for Vitamins | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

West of the U.S. naval base at St. John's, Newfoundland, a long spit of land juts southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Catastrophe | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...annual Metronome all-star band's "Royal Flush" lacks compactness and unity, but offers a good chance to identify each soloist. There are ten-in all, only two of whom play more than eight bars. The reverse, "I Got Rhythm," by a smaller band, is much better, with the improvisers given more of a chance. Except for a disorganized finale, it's perhaps unequalled in four years of these all-star sessions.... The new Columbia Roswell Sisters album officers the best jazz singing by a trio that can be heard today: Their interpretations far surpass in vitality and harmonic interest...

Author: By Harry Munros, | Title: SWING | 3/6/1942 | See Source »

...cage-barred wicket, but over a hip-high counter of light natural birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Stations | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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