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Word: toileting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inside, Roomette cars have 18 sleeping quarters, nine on each side of the corridor, and a porter's service compartment. Across one end of each roomette is a double seat with a folding arm rest. In an opposite corner is a toilet. Concealed in one wall are washstand and wardrobe. At night a bed 6 ft. 5 in. by 2 ft. 8 in. lets down from a 10 in. recess in the wall back of the seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomettes | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...their only child. By the time her memories begin, her mother was well launched on a career of making married life interesting. "How my mother puzzled me, and how I loved her!" she declares. Recklessly extravagant in gaudy gimcracks, her mother saved wrapping paper and string, wrote letters on toilet paper. When she got a fresh air mania, she propped open all the doors, ate outdoors, snow notwithstanding. War came "as a personal insult." Her own War service consisted of taking in five wounded Belgians, whom she quickly turned out again as spies because they bored her. When her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother & Child | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...toilet bowl which curves upward at the back, to conform to the natural contours of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...detailed record of the children's conduct: "The Quints are practically ignorant of life lived by other people, except for rare visits to the hospital kitchen which is a great treat. . . . They were slow to learn bladder control because five commodes on the veranda made going to the toilet a social treat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Y-A-C-E-M | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Uses classified: World. 92% laundry soap; U. S. 85% laundry soap, 12% toilet soap, 3% miscellaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Soap Facts | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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