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Word: crawlin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westerner: Use your eyes, mister. Look around you. These blighted miles of hot sand have been made fit places to live in. Think of it! One day worth nothin' 'cept to go crazy thirstin' and watchin' vinegarroons crawlin' by the cacti, and today worth one billion dollars in taxable property! That's progress for ye, mister, that's progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Professional Touch | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...took my pocketbook with six cents and my keys. Last night it was I got to thinkin' about this and the longer I thought the madder I got because I needed my keys about unlockin' things. Here I was unable to get into my place without crawlin' in the window. I lived there and I had a right nice place. I had me a hot plate and as good a blanket as you ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Widow | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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