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Word: tubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chang had some elephantine whims. He showered his audience with water and occasionally picked up his empty tub and flung that, too. His keeper and his fans laughed and decided that Chang was an elephant with imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: An Elephant with Imagination | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Brides-in-the-Bath murder case posed the question: Can a man drown his wife without external signs of violence? Sir Bernard upended a nurse in a tub and the water struck her nose with such force that she became unconscious. He revived the nurse and the husband was hanged. That was one of 110 murderers Sir Bernard helped convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Final Experiment | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire, miners chalked the promise on a coal tub: "If we'd better drillers and better cable, we'd have better figures than Betty Grable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Talking Success | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump the tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Well Done! | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...would, Pieter could see no moonbeams glinting from the plumbing in his hotel bathroom. Salisbury was in the midst of an acute water shortage. Pieter called his manager. The manager called the mayor, who just then was sitting, racking his brains over the water crisis, in a tub containing two meager inches of water. When Pieter's manager offered to help, the mayor leaped at the chance, bundled the boy into a car and drove round the town. Finally Pieter spotted some moonbeams. A skeptical but desperate city council set their engineers to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN RHODESIA: Moonshine | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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