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Word: janitored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fall River, Mass., Janitor John T. Tinney of the Borden Continuation School (for girls only) found two boys taking baths, another baking cake for breakfast, a fourth with pockets full of stolen lead pencils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Boston, Dr. Daniel Davenport was prevented from lecturing on Africans with a cinema called Jan go, in which appeared a cannibal called Maluba, because Maluba informed police that his real name was Firpo Jacko, that he was a janitor in a Harlem apartment house, that Dr. Davenport owed him $990 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Arkansas Man | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...rumor proved unfounded. A CRIMSON representative, patrolling the well-kept subterranean corridors of Morris and Hamilton halls was informed by a janitor of three years experience on the south side of the river that the Business School students are the cleanest bunch of college men he has known. Acquainted with the bottle rumor he added, "Come and I'll show you all we've picked up in that line over the past weekend." The display consisted of four ginger ale and three whisky bottles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Future Financial Magnates Cleared of Mysterious Charges of Maltmindedness--Janitors Deny Big Cleanup on Bottles | 3/6/1930 | See Source »

...Hamilton Hall the janitor displayed "A four weeks' killing." Among some forty ginger ale bottles were only six Scotch flasks and two square gin containers. Everything cleaned up in the mens' rooms comes down to us," added the exhibitor. "At a half a cent a bottle we don't make a a great deal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Future Financial Magnates Cleared of Mysterious Charges of Maltmindedness--Janitors Deny Big Cleanup on Bottles | 3/6/1930 | See Source »

...took for granted that all knew how his father started the movement. Daniel David Palmer was a "magnetic healer" who "cured" by laying his hands on innocents. One day a deaf Negro janitor came to him. The deafness had developed when "something broke in his back." Healer Palmer found a protuberance on the Negro's spinal column. He placed the man prone on the floor and knuckled the spine. After the "adjustment" the Negro could again hear, whence a new therapeutic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Business, Dull for 20,000 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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