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Word: scrubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years old in his Embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Captain Torbic Macdonald removed any doubt concerning his fitness to start in Saturday's tilt. He participated in a short scrimmage session, which found the A team taking the defensive and dished out a couple of hard tackles to scrub ball carriers...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: JOE KOUFMAN, BURG AYRES FORCED TO MISS GRID DRILLS | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...extent of Macdonald's injury, received during a 15 minute pressure punting drill, was not immediately ascertained. Medicos decided to withhold judgment on him until today. The Crimson leader was felled by a hard-charging scrub line as he was attempting to get off a punt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORBIE MACDONALD GETS LEG INJURY IN PUNTING PRACTICE | 10/3/1939 | See Source »

From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Temporary Extinguishment | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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