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Word: washing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Taxi Tours | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Goal was San Francisco, but fog shut in, the flyers grew exhausted, and finally they turned back from Eugene, Ore., landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash. Bewhiskered, red-eyed and tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 63 Hours 17 Minutes | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Californians have always tried to swipe some scenic beauty of ours and place it in their own State "where it never rains but dense fogs sometimes wash out two or three bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...read about your story in TIME and like it very much. And we would like to join your expedition. We are capable of doing the work on a ship for instance we can run errands, shine shoes, scrub decks, we have very sharp eyes, we will have them tested, wash and wipe dishes, and can keep our eyes open -till midnight. We are not scared of anything. We are faithful till the last moment and we are good digers, we can row a boat. We are 9 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Seattle, Wash., Mrs. William Morgan had a $100 diamond pecked from her ring while she was feeding her poultry. In hopes of recovering it, the Morgan family cooked and carefully chewed a chicken a day for 18 days. The diamond was finally found in a rooster's gizzard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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