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...advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with cash, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

...Weather Bureau at Louisville, Ky., reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk "as big as a washtub" dive, then shoot violently upward. In New Mexico, a man chased a falling disk up a canyon, found it was a five-by-eight-foot piece of tinfoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Somethings | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...advertisement, convinced that it would be disloyal and remiss not to "remember mother," assured that one remembers best with each, once a year. The business index will rise perceptibly, the sweet smell of roses and caramels will steep the land, but on Monday mother will be back at the washtub or Garden Club, bored, neglected, and tired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mammy! | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Belling the Mice | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bumpkins' Biographer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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