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Word: grubbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gent any salary," said Jake, discussing his labor relations. "When we run out of money, I go over to the pipe company and get what we got coming. We take out what we need for grub and living expenses and buy war bonds with the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jake and the Old Gent | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Graduate students and Faculty members are invited to a "grad grub" buffet supper party at Phillips Brooks House today at 6 o'clock. Mrs. Lucille Scheur will lead games after supper, and everyone will join in group singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grub for Grads | 7/24/1942 | See Source »

...Grad Grub" buffet supper. PBH at 6 o'clock. Tickets should be secured at the Summer School office before noon today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 7/24/1942 | See Source »

...which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days the wasp egg hatches into a grub which lives off the juices of the weevil grub until it is fully grown in five days. It lives about 30 days, matures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wasp v. Weevil | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Walter and Olive Ann | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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