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Word: restroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Internal Revenue Bureau officials in Newark, N.J., began re-checking 800,000 income tax returns. Reason: two women clerks had been flushing returns down restroom toilets to avoid work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...State's Attorney and the chief of State Police asked the questions which were on thousands of other lips. How did the fire start? Eyewitnesses swore the blaze first smouldered at the bottom of the tent near a canvas section raised as a men's restroom. Why did the tent burn with that celluloid fierceness? Circus men said the 19-ton big top had been sprayed with a waterproofing solution last April. It had not been inspected before the show by the Hartford fire marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Six Minutes | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...hedged with small fir trees, divides the four lanes into two. No signboards mar the way or confuse the eye-its only borders are the misty, pine-edged hillsides of the Alleghenies. Ten smart Esso stations, finished Pennsylvania-Dutch fashion in native wood and stone, specialize in restroom toilet seats sterilized by ultraviolet ray after every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Glory Road | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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