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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teachers talk about proper eating habits and cleanliness in the class-rooms," he points out, "but when the lunch bell rings the fastidious lad who tries to wash his hands finds no soap or towels in a filthy little washroom, and there is barely time to bolt his food down and return even if he makes a track start at the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Vet Flips Hat into School Committee Ring | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Fraternal. In Ephrata, Wash., brothers Luther & Homer Gray, meeting for the first time in six years, exchanged a cordial, hearty handshake that fractured Luther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder and lipstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Into Bellingham, Wash, from its maiden voyage last week chugged a sturdy 140-ft. trawler with a new kind of catch. In the Deep Sea's hold, frozen and packaged, were 150,000 pounds of king crab, the first to be caught commercially by any U.S. fishermen. As a result of the Deep Sea's venture, the U.S. fishing industry may be able to take over a onetime Japanese monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Frozen King | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Thirty-four Puget Sound seaplane owners startled residents of Port Townsend, Wash, by converging on it soon after dawn, landing their aircraft along half a mile of beach, and then leaping out for the world's first "seaplane breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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