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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punishment. What meat, especially beef, can be bought in this area is hardly fit to eat, and his wife has probably stood in line for an hour to buy it. He can't buy decent cheese, and his milk is so skimmed it is fit only for hog wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Richard) Taylor's line-and-wash delineation of himself surrounded by his friends the spiders, the enigmas and the worried toads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Autoportraiture | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Fish Stories. In Grand Coulee, Wash., Fisherman F. M. Heaton, returning home fishless, encountered a rattlesnake, tied a slipknot in his fishline, made a cast, proceeded homeward with a rattlesnake steak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Customer Satisfied. In Spokane, Wash., Everett J. Parker ordered twelve dozen doughnuts from a bakery, dropped around later to pick them up, found that the bakery had just burned to the ground. All that had been saved were twelve dozen doughnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...vote to call off the strike was unanimous. On the same day Private Albert Daggert, 19, wrote home from Fort Lewis, Wash. It said: "Tell Dad not to get too radical at work, for the fellows in the service need that stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Speech on a Buoy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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