Word: scrub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrub our infant offspring vigorously but let us not throw the baby down the drainpipe with the dirty water...
...French Government swore to catch Bandit Spada dead or alive, sent a whole regiment of gendarmes to Corsica under General Fournier. Though 200 excited newshawks were issued rifles and sent out into the scrub to join the chase, André Spada remained uncaught...
President emeritus Lowell and his colleagues are singing their swan song of privilege by opposing the child labor law, and Harvard professors will be eligible for benefits from the Townsend Plan if it does not do better by them than it has done by its scrub-women...
...Other members of Mr. Wallace's vast staff devise and distribute poisons to kill pests which infest fruits and vegetables. Mr. Campbell's grumps last week were largely due to the fact that his men must spend one-third of their time making sure that food raisers scrub from their harvests the insecticides other branches of the Department of Agriculture lavishly hand...
...nonofficial conference was held between Mr. Roosevelt and Otis Moore, overseer of the President's nearby 1,700-acre farm. On his hilly, meagre land the President turned loose 35 head of scrub cattle and two thoroughbred bulls five years ago. The breed improved, and last spring his herd of 100 dropped 50 calves. Since his feed crop could only winter 100 head, it was decided to market 50. Last week Overseer Moore reported that the best price to be had was 2½ cents a lb. As he and Mr. Roosevelt agreed that this was "terrible," they postponed their plans...