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Word: janitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...janitor at the station used to be a plumber", Dr. Clark said, "we decided to build our pyramid out of pipe, each aide being about fifteen feet long. Barrels supported and buoyed it. On top of this triangle a high tower was built, with the instruments at the top. No one believed the thing would float...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discoveries Made With "Flying Trapeze" Show Cause of Loss of Heat in Ocean, Clarke Declares | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings in the college paper. Tall, bushy-haired, expressing himself in the twanging speech of the hill country, he now lives in Murfreesboro, where he began his literary career by conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bell's Shackle | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...janitor in one of the houses recalls the days when he used to keep spare mattresses in the basement corridors to use as cots for those temporarily incapacitated during house dances. It will be noticed that the mattresses are no longer in use, nor have they been for some years. This would indicate that the situation has improved. Should any extra-heavy boot be used to boost John over, the fence when he is already being ushered ceremoniously, if slowly, out of the yard gate? Guy Garland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/5/1935 | See Source »

...final page in the Dunster House janitor case, Bennett Y. Ran '37, was fined $100, given a six months' suspended sentence, and placed on probation for a period of two years in the East Cambridge Court yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RYAN GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF 6 MONTHS, 2 YEARS ON PROBATION | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

...case so that it never reached University Hall and disciplinary action. Lastly, it is impossible to overlook the observation that even the innocent and now deified Mr. George was perhaps so intoxicated that Mr. Apted could not be blamed for believing him capable of the outrage to the janitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/27/1935 | See Source »

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