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Word: watchman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only by an aged watchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cock of the Walk | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Oblivious of this fact, Radcliffe girls got out their Angora mittens, motorists got out the chains and the anti-freeze, and Terence O'Reilly '19, night watchman of the Public Waterworks of Weston, prepared himself with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow Slips In on Little Cat Feet | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Daniel G. Mulvihill, 66, president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, will resign his post as watchman and proctor at the Law School to guide the Association on a salaried basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mulvihill Now Salaried Head Of Employees | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

After finding no one in the store, the patrolmen discovered that the watchman had forgotten to turn off the alarm while making his rounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Has False Alarm | 5/3/1949 | See Source »

...Panama's vocabulary contains only a part of the Americanisms that have invaded the everyday Spanish of the Isthmus, mainly by infiltration from the English-speaking Canal Zone. Other beachheads, on subjects ranging from elegant eating (at a dinerdans) to economic blockade (boicot), include chingongo (chewing gum), guachiman (watchman), daim (dime), bichicomer, the verbs blofear (to bluff) and quidnapear, the meaningful noun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Emparedados | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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