Word: grubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview in today's CRIMSON Mr. Randolph Walker of New York expounds his plan for reemployment, the so-called "Grub Stake Plan." His ideas would be worth considering if only because they advance a new solution of the problems which the depression has forced upon everyone; but further than this, they are interesting because they touch a subject which is at the bottom of every heart, because they involve the word, gold...
...special interview to the CRIMSON; Randolph Walker, widely known New York editor, outlined his "Grub Stake Plan" for National recovery and unemployment relief. Defining his position, he said: "I am going on the theory that America has solved the art or problem of distribution. The necessitates a medium of exchange of purchasing power placed in the hands of the buyer. The Grub Stake Plan," Mr. Walker went on, "is simply this: first, a grub stake...grub, a pick, a shovel and a pan... for prospectors and placer panners; then transport to placer regions, where it has already been shown that...
...hand of one of the children, who is attempting to nail the spatulate toes of the Vagabond to the floor. He persuades the little creature to desist by a smart cuff to the side of the head; it rambles off across the floor, wriggling like an inebriated grub; it reaches the side of its confrere, and regards him with a vacuous, faintly irritating expression. Finally, flushing to the roots of its hair, it strikes the other, who succumbs with a pitiful rattle in its throat. As the woman reenters the room, the Vagabond flees back to his tower. But again...
...undergraduate recently went to New York for the express purpose of gathering together as many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
...blobby, short-tipped, turned-down nose; broad shoulders; short, thick-set body; straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest of the Western hemisphere. Four times Dr. Hrdlicka has been North since 1926, always with parties of diggers. This time...