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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedish damsel, Flanders jade, A dark Eiran colleen, A Chink, a Jap, a Negro maid, A primitive Slovene, Let chance but send a wench of these To mop our dusty floor, To wash our dinner dishes, please-We do not ask for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Nicolini (who is also Argentina's director of Post & Telegraphs) was no man to suffer such a rebuke in silence. Promptly he called a meeting of the powerful governing body, AFA (Asociación de Futbol Argentina'). To teach the players a stern lesson, AFA voted to wash out the rest of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Time Out | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...years, New York City public schools have made no provision for soap or towels in their washrooms. There was always plenty of water, but most schoolkids had to dry their sticky hands & faces on handkerchiefs, toilet tissue, or sleeves. Others just didn't wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Next to Godliness | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: And the Governors, Too | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...Look Now. In Tacoma, Wash., police were hunting for the self-conscious burglar who turned Policeman George Paul's picture to the wall while he was robbing the apartment of Paul's sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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