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Word: parboiled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...galleries packed with noisy veterans, the bill came up for six hours debate. Its supporters said nothing that had not already been said many times. Typical pro-Bonus argument by New York's expansive Copeland: "In the country a man can get out and catch an old rooster, parboil him and, with a few turnips, get along well enough but when poverty comes to my city there is nothing to eat but the sidewalks of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of the Bonus | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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