Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When pressed for facts concerning his training and start, Ted explained that he was a self-taught musician, having first picked up the rudiments as an apprentice in a music shop in his home town, Circleville, Ohio. His four brothers all attended college, but the music bug took hold of Ted at an early age, and he began his vaudeville career at the tender age of nine. Incidentally, the movie in which he played recently and which supposedly represented the story of his life, was classed by him as "ordinary movie hokum...
Last week, 16 of the best drivers in Europe whizzed across the starting line in tiny bug-shaped cars. Four hours and 45 minutes later, the winner, Italy's Fagioli. crossed the finish line in front of the grandstand where 50,000 people were shouting loud enough to drown the sound of the cars roaring in behind him. His time, in a Mercedes shaped like a blunt crochet-hook with a notch for the driver's seat, averaged 105 kilometres an hour, 70 kilometres slower than his winning speed over the old course last year...
...TIME more concerning price paid and net investment of Woodyard brothers in their weekly newspapers [TIME, July 9] What percentage of net investment came in the 1934 dividends? The writer's experience has been that every daily newsman at some time in his life had the weekly ownership bug. The hurdle usually was found to be the excessive price asked by owners; Oregon's highest-priced weekly sold for $35,000 without accounts receivable; several weeklies have sold for $20,000 to $25,000. . . . You also mention the Humboldt County, Calif., perfumer who 20 years ago scented...
...turtles in the ring's centre. The Dog House's Hot Dog (by Experiment, out of Mongrel) pulled in its neck and went to sleep. The Medical Clinic's Gluteus Maximus (by Cracked Pot, out of Whack) plunged madly toward the finish line, saw a bug, lost interest. Neck up and bobbing. Maple Leaf I (Buy British, out of God's Country) plugged steadily toward the 38-ft. circle's rim. A breeze whipped the Union Jack stuck on its back as it stepped across the line for a new record...
...Italian motif dominates the 22 buildings of Indiana limestone and white-washed brick. In the blue of a long pond glitter the glass & aluminum of two bird houses and a reptile house. A bug house, first in the U. S., is half completed. It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates...