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Word: washrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student is admitted to Princeton, he finds himself in a centralized campus of high towers and Gothic arches, interspersed here and there with the usual Victorian monstrosities. He lives in a smallish room and has a male biddy, and has to walk to the basement for his bathroom and washroom. This latter difficulty is somewhat lessened by the existence of mop basins on each floor, which Princetonians use for face-washing and other purposes...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...Baseball is over," said a Reuters teletypist to a U.N. staff member in a washroom at Flushing Meadows. "We are all making bets on who wins in the election, and on what ballot. Want to come into the pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Close Decision | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Just for the Laugh | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

When the Senators got back, they went to the Senate washroom and scrubbed their hands thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Inspection Trip | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Education of Clendenin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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