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Word: washing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open-air wards of Bataan Hospital lie U.S. and Filipino soldiers, women, children, Japanese prisoners. Nurses sleep under trees, near fox holes, wash their own overalls, bathe in streams. Food is cooked on two old-fashioned wood stoves. All equipment is sterilized, but the thick Bataan dust is everywhere, and assistants must constantly flap fly swatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jungle Hospital | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Service. In Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Mary Guadette learned the Government wanted an egg speedup, hung a sign in her chicken house reading: "Keep 'em frying!'' One hen's answer: an egg that measured 7 in. around the center, 8 in. the long way, and had three yolks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Sirs: Your magnificent picture, even if it was of a mad dog, was magnificent and a credit to the artist. . . . CHAS. J. CAMPBELL Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Coast Guard Seattle, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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