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Word: janitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annoyed by a university decision to abolish janitor service after this year, 500 Princeton students poured out of their rooms one night last week, set off a barrage of firecrackers, chanted their way into town ("We Want Janitors!"), finally staged a mass sit-down strike in front of Nassau Hall. It was a mighty mutiny, the university admitted, but not mighty enough: Old Nassau's dormitory janitors were gone for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

...serious, middle-aged man came to this room where he received the congratulations and good wishes of many professors, students, and other Cambridge residents. He was the creator of these many, varied works of art. However, art was just one of his many avocations; John Morris Dunn was a janitor in Mallinckrodt...

Author: By Marlowe A. Sigal, | Title: Mallinckrodt Janitor Creates Works Of Art, Telescopes, Violins, Boat | 4/10/1952 | See Source »

...that a man of such-varied and well-developed skills is merely a janitor in a chemical laboratory...

Author: By Marlowe A. Sigal, | Title: Mallinckrodt Janitor Creates Works Of Art, Telescopes, Violins, Boat | 4/10/1952 | See Source »

...discovered that the chain binding the black Raleigh bike to a rack in Moors Hall basement had been sawed through. The janitor informed her that the bike had been confiscated, along with several other unclaimed ones stored in the basement and had been auctioned off in Cabot Hall November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Bicycle Auctioned Off; All a Mistake Smith Declares | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

According to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, a new janitor in Claverly Hall neglected to heat up the flue well enough to insure the removal of the smoke. As a result the smoke backed up not only into Claverly itself, but also into the ventilating system of the network of steam tunnels which underlies all University buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cause of Yesterday's Two Fires Discovered | 2/27/1952 | See Source »

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