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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall, differ from those of preceding classes. A new and more readable type has been adopted, and a series of candid photographs appears, purportedly to portray the everyday life of the "typical Freshman," apparently blond-haired, phototropic Charlie Borden, who may be seen participating in all Freshman activities from shower-taking to cramming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 RED BOOK DISTRIBUTED TO FRESHMEN | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Expected. By Fred Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, who has lived for four years in an iron lung, and Teresa Larkin Snite, 25: a child; in September. Said Snite: "God continues to shower us with all his choicest blessings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Horace Wells was not "Dazzled with hopes of a fortune. . . ." If he had been, he would have patented his discovery as he had patented two previous commercial discoveries, a coal sifter and a shower bath. When urged to patent this discovery, Wells declared, "No, let it be as free as the air we breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Bones men are supposed to wear their pins at all times, hold them in their mouths while taking a shower. They are reputed to give each other philosophers' names as nicknames. When a Bones man marries, the 14 other Bones men in his class are ushers at his wedding. After the normal ceremony, they retire with the bride and groom into another room, there conduct a special Bones ceremony. They invariably give the bride a grandfather clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skull & Bones | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement park builder named Henry Bertram Aldrich, Pines Camp today has a $50,000 plant complete with 55 modern stucco cottages (hot water, steam heat, electricity, private bath & shower, etc.), filling station, restaurant, laundry, grocery store and trailer grounds. Monthly payroll for the camp's 27 employes runs about $1,000. In the busy fall-winter-spring season it grosses $250 on good days, last year netted a comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Motels | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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