Word: showering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that there was some foundation to the story. . . . You know, it is not so very long ago that a certain very high-placed American woman made a trip to Australia in a bomber that it is reported had been remodeled so as to permit the installation of a shower bath...
Through the many University athletic buildings every day pass thousands of men who are conditioning themselves in the accelerated physical program here at Harvard. After a cross country workout, or a grimy football drill, or calisthenics class, it is taken for granted that there will be a refreshing shower and a clean towel waiting at the various athletic buildings. Few men realize that every towel used in the athletic program is laundered by the University right here at Dillon Field House...
Last week the long-smoldering quarrel between Kuomintang and Communist Governments blew up in a shower of sparks. From the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Chou En-lai came an ugly cry: "There is danger of civil war." In Chungking, Information Minister Liang Han-chao snapped back: "There is no danger of civil...
...blank with rifles, cut each other's throats with bayonets. The Americans, British and Canadians attacked with auto-rifles, Tommy guns. The Nazis fought back with their quick-firing Schmeisser "burp-guns" and sowed mean little "Bouncing Betty" mines that spring up waist high and burst in a shower of steel scrap when a soldier steps...
Murray, a big V-12 transfer from Holy has established himself as the men's number one collegiate javelin man. Last spring, after sweeping both New England A.A.U. and Intercollegiate championships, he went to Philadelphia and won the IC4A Nationals, "with the helpf of an ice cold shower," he adds. In the trials he pulled some ligaments, was barely able to qualify for the But then came an icy cold shower, recovery, and the national a 197-foot heave, his best effort...