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Word: beavers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not supremely happy Beaver Man, waded into a trout-stream in Pennsylvania and for three days indulged pensively in the Sport of Presidents. He used the subtle, sporting fly, however, instead of the homely, almost infallible worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Res Publicae | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Nothing like the amount that is generally reported by a curious public," retorted the Beaver Man, and declined to be specific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Questions & Answers | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Victory without opposition is a hollow thing. But an excess of popular support where little support was necessary is not hollow. That is why Hooverites rejoiced last week when the Republican Party's busy Beaver man, unopposed in the California primary, obtained his home State's 29 delegates by virtue of some 600,000 votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Beaver Man | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...University, second 150-pound eight furnished a very close competition in its mile sprint against the Engineer lightweights of the same class, losing to a last-minute Beaver rally by a little over a length. The winning time was six minutes and three seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE CORNERED CREW RACE ON CHARLES RIVER | 5/11/1928 | See Source »

...progress last week of Candidate Hoover, busy beaver-man of the present Administration, towards theRepublican nomination, was as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Beaver Man | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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