Word: grubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grub Ship," and would sail over to Oakland, Tiburon and Sausalito, which were unaffected by the earthquake, and bring in food and other supplies for my immediate family and many friends...
...Because a postponement was not considered sporting, the golfers trudged wearily around, got soaking wet, wore fur mittens between shots. Caddies stood ahead as human signposts to mark the direction of the greens. To make matters worse, hungry birds had dislodged old divots in their search for grub, left a mass of cupped lies...
Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
...proposal for a three-year college course, mot recently advocated by Dr. Drury of St. Paul's School, demands the serious consideration of President Conant. While, a graduate must grub for years to earn a self supporting income, as an undergraduate he usually wastes an appalling amount of time...
...Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...