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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Seventh child of an Italian carpenter, Basso Pinza was born in Rome in 1892. His only youthful distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso Cantante | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower bath, is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 18, 1943 | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...enemy raiders off the starboard bow." He raced to the deck of the U.S. merchantman just in time to stop a shower of splinters from the first shell. As he lay dazed, more shells screamed over the deep blue South Atlantic to bury themselves in the ship's unarmored sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: One Less Raider | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

After Caleb Loring opened the evening's festivities with a goal at 0:14 in the very first Crimson rush, the Chasemen let fly a shower of rubber at Engineer goalie Al Tashjian, and when the boys started to scrape the ice at the end of the first canto, the score...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: HOOPSTERS TAKE THIRD STRAIGHT; CRIMSON PUCKSTERS THRASH M.I.T. | 12/10/1942 | See Source »

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