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Word: washing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does Audience measure up in the big leagues of the commercial literati? If a magazine is judged on need, reason, or originality, it strikes out without swinging; there is nothing new in Audience. If a magazine is judged by the community which produces it, Cambridge can wash its pale hands and return to ruminations over dark beer and pornography; of the twenty-seven signed articles in the current issue, only two came out of the Brattle Street axis...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Big Little Magazines: Post-War Inflation in the Avant-Garde | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Says Munoz: "The supreme utility is freedom with reasonable comfort. The human being should have a passionate wash to be free rather than a passionate wish to be a possessor. In the old days you lived a good life, served God and went to Heaven. What are we living for? To beat the Russians? Own one automobile, two, three, four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: The Bard of Bootstrap | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...Wash and dry dishes. F. both. F. dumps garbage, slops and contents of wastepaper baskets; hauls water, splits small wood and brings logs and small wood into cabin for day's fires. Fills kerosene lamps, etc. J. dusts and sweeps, polishes tables, makes beds, replaces burned candles, etc. F. shaves and then both relax. J. does a crossword puzzle and F. makes "log" notes and checks on birds seen during morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: F. & J. at Play | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...thereabouts-Pre-dinner swim or wash. Plan dinner. (Meals are quite elaborate and are carefully thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: F. & J. at Play | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...evening this week Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel will scoot out to New York City's Idlewild Airport, warble through her Show before TV cameras in the terminal, then wave a heartfelt farewell to her viewers as they watch her fly off for Europe. In her prop wash she will leave the U.S. to make the best of TV's summer season, including her own program's hot-weather replacement, ABC-TV's Frigidaire Summer Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Bad Old Summertime | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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