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Word: janitored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill "Flash" Graney, night janitor at Lowell House, proved himself the hero of the hour yesterday when he captured a cat for Julian Lowell Coolidge '96, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

After the Coolidge household had been thrown into consternation when Mr. Coolidge's small black cat was nowhere to be found, "Flash" Graney moved into action. Judiciously depositing an attractive, if slightly used herring outside the janitor's office, he sat back snugly and awaited his victim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FLASH' GRANEY RECAPTURES COOLIDGE'S LOST BLACK CAT | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

...more. This presented a problem to the city's low-paid teachers, who own little besides personal possessions. The resourceful teachers solved the problem, however, by hastening to declare the personal property that tax-dodging citizens ordinarily do not list. Blonde, comely Lee Ray Chandler listed her cello. Janitor C. C. Woodward declared his cow. Teacher H. P. Kuntz admitted his rifle. Others listed watches, rings, pins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Voters | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Three minutes past the midnight when his term as New Jersey's Governor ended, Harold G. Hoffman stepped from his office, shouted at an astonished janitor: "I want those overhead lights out as soon as possible. I am a taxpayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...bird had been sent from the Lilly Orchard Company of Indianapolis, Illinois, by a former member of Leverett, and addressed to "Club 2", B42 Leverett House. The inhabitants of B42 disclaimed all responsibility, but Colonel Apted finally disposed of it by giving it away to Louis Hardy, the present janitor of University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Live Chicken Shipped to Leverett House Man Taken in Hand by Colonel Apted | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

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