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Word: janitored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Milton Logan grew up in Brooklyn, became successively a lunch wagon manager, a janitor, a hotel clerk, superintendent of an apartment house owned by wealthy, impulsive Cortlandt Field Bishop, in whose favor he quickly rose. Realty-man Bishop was also an art collector. In 1923 he bought the American Art Association for $500,000, later got its chief Manhattan (and U. S.) rival, the Anderson Galleries, for another $500,000. In October 1929 he merged them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Gallery Mystery | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...room in Eliot House last night he found an enthusiastic gallery watching a cat give birth to a litter of kittens under his bed. "I stood around and cheered her on when I could stand the strain," Hayes said. The cat belongs to Martin Ratchford, Eliot House Janitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hayes Has Kittens | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...Board of Education to bring to trial and dismiss a teacher named Angela D'Auria, who had told her pupils that a janitor was sending up "fumes" through the classroom ventilators. But Mrs, D'Auria appealed her ouster, and State Education Commissioner Frank Pierrepont Graves found Mrs. D'Auria's dismissal too severe a punishment, ordered her reinstated. (Eventually, the School Board had her retired for disability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peculiarities | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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