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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightmare. In Orofino, Idaho, Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Converse woke up in a shower of glass, discovered that a passing horse had poked his nose through their bedroom window to nibble a vase of appetizing flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Last week Dayton had a shower of green rain. It stained a few citizens' clothes and left a greenish tint on some white-painted houses. The press reported that local scientists were mystified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perennial Mystery | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Adams men think their set-up has so much to offer that, to them, the only problem which arises is that of picking a room. Here, you have two choices: do you want a small room with a new shower, or do you want the largest rooms anywhere with a bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams' Food Best . . . | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...usual sense. Essentially, a House's attractiveness depends upon those who live there; and different kinds of people are attracted by different things: to some, a House's location may be most important, others may fancy the food or the House Master, still other Freshmen may be influenced by shower baths, or gigantic rooms, or a well-stocked record library, or quantities of squash courts, or just about anything else you care to think of. But on a recent Senior Class poll, the one reason that was favored overwhelming was this: "My friends live there." When you look back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Choice of a House ... | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

...last week Michigan's well-coached* athletes were singing it as if they meant it. Michigan's basketball team danced around Iowa (51-35) to become champions of the Dig Nine. Then the players made a beeline for Coach Ozzie Cowles, and shoved him under a shower, clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mighty Michigan | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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