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Word: washes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many Los Angeles husbands spent Sundays helping wives do the wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAUNDRIES: Nonessential? | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Seventeen were captured by the Japs in the Philippine campaign. Three were wounded in New Guinea. Five Air Forces generals - Tinker, Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, Ken Walker, Ramey and Asa Duncan - have been lost in action or operations against the enemy. Two other Air Forces general officers (Dargue and Wash) have been killed in operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Generals to the Front | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...nice, comfortable, decent, human heroes with nobility in their souls." Thomas Jefferson is such a lesson-106 pages of amiable discourse. Only a general outline is given of Jefferson as statesman, and the book is likely to go down best with youth. Illustrations in color and line-plus-wash by the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book Notes | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Editor Canham writes occasional editorials but mainly keeps a hand on his paper's excellent foreign and U.S. correspondents - men and women like Wash ington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond and War Correspondent Edmund Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Best In the U. S. | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Veteran | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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