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Word: pail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerks sorted out 474 bottles of wine, stripped them of identi fying labels. Then they were carried into the presence. There the judges examined them for color and clarity, sniffed them for bouquet, rolled them on their tongues to test the body, then spat them out into a tin pail half-filled with sawdust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Judgment Day | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Burlington, Vt., Governor Ernest W. Gibson, a city fellow, bravely entered a cow-milking contest, labored before 5,000 spectators, came out third & last. The winner, who milked with one hand, could show a half-pail. The Governor's two-handed take: two cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Kinfolks | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Cinderella, a conical garbage pail with custom-made wax-paper linings that looks like a trophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Tubadipdrips & Tempots | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Grub Stake. In Honolulu, Joseph Rodriguez told police that his lunch pail had been stolen, said he used it as a bank, had just deposited 3 sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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