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Word: drub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles" because its entire first team and four substitutes are former Indiana high-school players). In the first game Captain Hank Luisetti and his able teammate, Art Stoefen, who is a cousin of onetime Davis Cupper Lester Stoefen and No. 2 Stanford pointmaker, lived up to expectations, helped drub Southern California, 64-10-54. Next night Luisetti, suffering from an injured eye, scored only 13 points, and Stanford was beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Point a Minute | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Meantime the Swiss Federal Council was fearful that Dictator Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Saint v. Jew | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...Freshmen Drub Gardiner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERMEN AND GRAPPLERS HAVE SUCCESSFUL DAY | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

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