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Word: janitored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originated by James Fazza, assistant janitor of Eliot, the plan provides that each of the three janitors and 16 maids contribute a dollar a week, and at the end of 19 weeks each of the participants will own a bond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Workers Pool Funds, Buy Weekly Defense Bond | 2/4/1942 | See Source »

...drill-press operator and tool grinder was a janitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Kokomo's Count | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...five weeks a Federal jury of farmers, laborers, merchants and a janitor's wife listened to revolutionary manifestoes and such, goggled at the mouse-dropping evidence. Vincent Dunne's brother, one of the defendants, committed suicide. Five others were finally let off by the judge. Of the remaining 23, the jury exonerated all of sedition, convicted 18 of conspiring to arouse insubordination in Army and Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Mice Apprehended | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Behind locked doors Harvard's "Verein Turmwaechter" lost its collective German accent in the excitement of being imprisoned in Lowell House Tower Room for nearly an hour last Wednesday night. A hook and ladder was summoned from the Fire Department, but its efforts were superfluous as the janitor of the building finally succeeded in battering down the hinges and removing the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Turmwaechter" Sabotaged As Tower Door Lock Jams | 11/28/1941 | See Source »

Yale is now without heat, light, janitor, maid, or campus police services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Employees Strike as Students Are Forced to Do Without Heat, Light | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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