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Word: holer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driving. This year Dynaflow is standard on Buick's big 155-h.p. Roadmaster, extra ($200) on the 120-h.p. Super. Buick's circular "venti-ports" on its front fenders, partly a styling fillip and partly for engine cooling, have already earned the Super the nickname the "three-holer" and the Roadmaster the "four-holer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...late Chic Sale (The Specialist") would have been delighted with what the State of Mississippi has done, out back. All over the State, in the last six years, bright new privies have gone up. Each privy is a three-holer (big, medium and little). By last week, the State could boast 156,706 new outhouses-approximately one for every 14 citizens (not counting some 800,000 flush toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out Back in Mississippi | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Groom News: "Groom is facing a water shortage and by damn I mean a water shortage. I am asking every man, woman and child to help save water. Let's all go back to the old practice of less modern ways. Let's visit the old two-holers. If you don't have a two-holer, borrow your neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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