Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tacoma, Wash...
Died. Francis Schmidt, 58, fast-talking, hard-driving football coach of Ohio State's 1939 "razzle-dazzle" Big Ten champions; after long illness; in Spokane, Wash. He once spurred his Buckeyes to a long-sought victory with a classic locker-room line: "Michigan boys put on their pants one leg at a time same...
...hand-washing, the detergent wash-water should be at 110° to 120° F.-as hot as the hand can stand. In a machine (water up to 140° F.), this process should take at least 40 seconds...
Baseball's Paul Bunyan is Sergeant Charley Cronin. He keeps on mowing 'em down. Last week he had won 69 straight games in three years of Army pitching (including a recent victory over Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League). The Fort Lewis (Wash.) pitcher is a 30-year-old ex-minor leaguer, who won 24, lost 19 with Springfield of the Three-I League before retiring with a sore arm. The St. Louis Browns, the Cardinals and Detroit had liked his fast ball but labeled him too frail (150 lbs.) to stand the gaff. On Army beans...
...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...