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Word: washing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hazard. In South Bend, Wash., the local game protector reported elk were crowding the highways, bumming cigarets from autoists. He explained the elk were not smokers, but chawers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1941 | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City, two weeks after somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's clean washing off her wash line, somebody stole Mrs. Lorus Jackson's washing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Puts his head beneath a trickle when he wants to have a wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PRISONERS: Down the Rabbit Hole | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Diplomas in apple packing went to 75 laborers near Yakima, Wash, who, for five nights a week, graded, wrapped & packed wooden apples for practice in a WPA class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Run, Rabbits, Run! | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Shelley reminded him (he said) of a serpent that walked on the tip of its tail -so strange and rapid were his movements, so remote his habits-glistening, ubiquitous, and hard to capture." Trelawny did not discover that of him Byron had said: "If they could teach Trelawny to wash his hands and tell the truth, they would have some hope of turning him out a gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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