Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressions of esteem from its employes were its only diet, the steel industry would have been on starvation rations for years. The late Judge Elbert Gary gave his name to a city, but never during his lifetime was that hard-bitten old steelmaster honored by workers marching behind brass bands. Last week four little towns in the Allegheny Valley closed shop & school to turn out in personal tribute to the 75-year-old president of their local steel company, Allegheny Steel's Harry E. Sheldon. It was Constitution Day for the rest of the U. S., but for Tarentum...
Dogman Terhune had published in the August issue of Reader's Digest a brief essay entitled "Beware of the Dog" which consisted mainly of advice on how to avoid being bitten. A dog which comes up with high head and loud barks, observed Mr. Terhune, does not intend to bite. If the animal approaches with head down and low growls, it probably means to bite but will frequently be too puzzled to do so if the person stands with feet together and hands on chest. That dogs are inclined to attack people who are afraid of them Author Terhune...
...bitten by a dog, remember this-not once in many thousand times is the dog rabid. Rabies exists, but it is very rare. Of the almost uncountable bites inflicted during a term of years on attendants in the New York City dog pounds, not one caused a case of rabies...
...persons bitten by mad dogs in England in one year, 148 contracted rabies and died. Mortality...
...Hard-bitten Texans describe their State as the place where you can look farther and see less, where there are more cows and less milk, than anywhere else on earth. Readers looking over the current bumper crop of books about Texas, put out to synchronize with the Texas Centennial, might have added that it is the State about which you can read more and learn less than any other in the Union...