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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This momentous experiment-the very first chain reaction-marked the beginning of the Atomic Age. The pile was successful. Long before the queasy process had been reduced to an orderly procedure, a gigantic, full-sized plutonium plant had been started at Hanford on the desert near Yakima, Wash. Advantages of the unattractive site: isolation, a good supply of Grand Coulee power and the Columbia River which would carry away the enormous heat generated in the piles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Age: Manhattan District | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fish Story | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

Woman's Place. In Ellensburg, Wash., the Daily Record ran a want ad, "Girl or woman for general housework," under Farm Machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1945 | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

While window dressers wash down the mannequins in the department stores, Weegee shows the city asleep-in gutters, on fire escapes and park benches, six in a parked car. He photographs the dreamy abstracted faces watching the ambulance doctors at work. He catches the mayor off-guard, a Negro mother and daughter watching a fire from which another daughter and her baby cannot escape, Bowery barflies taking their ease, a shabby woman staring at operagoing finery (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weegee | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home Is Where the Gadget Is | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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