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Word: scum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...filled to overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were allowed to become stopped. In reply he treated it as a matter of light importance, and, worse yet, of frequent occurance. Under such conditions I have seen the walls of the tank coated with slimy scum along the water-line, and the water itself so milky that the bottom could not be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 10/19/1915 | See Source »

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