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Word: toweling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...head resident of Barnard College in New York wired the editors, "Will charge to your account 300 Pullman reservations for the Merchants Limited. . . . Have towel, soap, and water ready. Appreciating your sincere thoughts we remain 300 strong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Shower-Bather Gets No Soap | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Totem & Taboo | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Everybody gets what he pays for at Harvard football games except the customer," is a time-worn Boston adage. Players, as a general rule, don't get a clean towel out of season. Hence, Harvard doesn't always get the best players...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...when he was 29 and a millionaire tobacco heir, Gray and a syndicate of big businessmen wanted to start a newspaper to compete with the Journal and Sentinel monopoly. He ended up buying the two papers for more than $1,000,000 when the owner threw in the towel. Gray still wishes Winston-Salem (pop. 90,000) could afford two independent papers because "monopoly journalism is inherently bad . . . It is a lot easier to run a newspaper if you are not the sole trustee of the printed word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor v. Publisher | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...cities tried to live cannily. They avoided hot subway gratings and steaming manholes as martens avoid traps; when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: The Heat | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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