Word: badger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Known to prurient occidentals as "Mr. A," the victim of a "frame up" or "badger game" wored on him by English blackmailers in Paris (TIME...
Different countries, different scenes. At the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., a badger-like Belgian, Professor George Van Biesbroeck, squatted in his dusky cavern, mapping what he could see, through Earth's shaking atmosphere, of the 1926 Martian geography. He disregarded the two little moons that circle Mars (the inner one twice daily) and concentrated on the dark-stained areas of its surface which remain fairly constant in their own cycle of changes and seem to indicate the existence of seasons on Mars-a 340-day summer and 347-day winter. Last week it was summer time...
...Badger to Referee Tomorrow...
Final arrangements for the races tomorrow were announced last night. W. E. Badger of Yale has been chosen as the referee. The times at which the various races are to be held have been changed somewhat, and now call for the Freshman contest, which is first in order, to begin at 5 o'clock. This will be followed by the Junior race at 5.45 o'clock, and the race between the University crews at 6.30 o'clock...
...would badger, dun, and hector...