Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman botany student knows, all of these reported events are biologically impossible, since they imply that trees grow from the bottom. Trees, contrary to popular opinion, grow from the ends of the branches and of the main trunk . . . H. E. BREWER Pullman, Wash...
...Wind, Three Came Home) got her first peek at Sandakan as a young bride in 1934. Then she had felt the lure "of a country where elephants roamed free, fish flew . . . ladies wore evening dresses every evening, and I had no dishes to do, no clothes or babies to wash...
Columnist Hedda Hopper thought it was high time Hollywood stopped trying to make its stars look like just folks, and began marketing some of the oldtime glamour. Said she: "You can't pick up a magazine without seeing pictures of your favorite star marketing...washing dishes, hanging out diapers, changing babies. If they haven't got a baby they romp with a dog... You never saw Valentino holding a child; but you saw him with a beautiful babe on his arm. Jack Barrymore never posed for a life-with-father layout. Have you ever seen a picture...
...Information for Settlers," says the sign over a door of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation headquarters in fast-growing little Ephrata, Wash. (1950 pop. 4,584). The word settlers, as used there, is no nostalgic recall of old frontier days. Inside the door sit the 1951 settlers themselves, sun-weathered men & women who have come to Ephrata in search of a new frontier-the irrigated farmland created out of sagebrush desert by Grand Coulee Dam. They ask sober, practical questions, but in their eyes glows the same high excitement that built the U.S. The bureau believes that they are only...
...services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...