Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T. that Schwinger developed his owlish habits. The noise and bustle of the Radiation Laboratory was so intense during the day, that he preferred to work at night. He often worked from midnight to dawn--"there were fewer people around then, just the scrub women...
What about the Galloway? Back in Kansas City, Ike addressed the Hereford Association in a folksy chat that wowed the cattlemen and revealed the President as something of an authority on cows. "You know." he told his audience, "the old scrub cattle on the prairie began to disappear when I was a very young boy. There were all sorts of new breeds appearing-short horns. Angus, the white face and the Galloway. Whatever happened to the Galloway? He was a big black cow, you know, bigger than the Angus, and sort of woolly-haired...
Each Man Should Scrub...
While only pledges are actually expected to scrub, public opinion would consider anyone who stood noticeably aloof from participation as something of an odd bird, and one to be watched for further anti-social tendencies. Frederick R. Alvord, Secretary of the University and Colgate alumnus summed up the general attitude, "The student body might look askance at any student not in the extra-curricular life of the school...
Armed with his Sc.D. from Harvard (he has no M.D.), Kinsey joined the Indiana faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...