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Word: crabbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interior reaches. Unknowingly he takes most of them in with other foods. They, more knowing, accept no substitutes: while they have him they eat him, and him alone. Taken together, these constitute man's interior environment. But there are others who attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help you to see more in them. And if you yourself happen to harbor some of the deadlier species, Dr. Causey's professional attitude will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside Story | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...main entrance lobbies have been executed in Crab Orchard stone, the surface of which was left in the same raw and untooled form as when taken from the deposit beds of Tennessee. This stone was carefully selected for colors, and, although every imaginable color is present, the predominating tone of the lobbies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Opens Doors of New Biological Laboratories to Newspaper Men--New Unit Excels in Laboratory Equipment | 1/29/1932 | See Source »

...Crab claws or oyster shells, powdered, to clean teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Queer Drugs | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Cover-to-cover readers differ as to which cover they begin with. Some start in the middle and work crab-wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1931 | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Oyster Bay | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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