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...beer and spaghetti (with meat balls) at a little party for which we owe thanks to the Lieutenant who obligingly forgot, for the night, our performances at past inspections. We doubt whether the Navy can show us a man who can hold a candle to "Turk" as far as "chug-a-lugging" is concerned...

Author: By E. MORGAN Vigneron, | Title: ARMY P-1's CORNER | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

...hundreds of bays and inlets along the upper Atlantic Coast this week there was a splash of activity: the oyster season had opened.* Oystermen clambered into their tug-like boats, chug-chugged to the beds, used big dredges to pull bivalves from the bottom, came home gunwales deep with shellfish. To landlubbers everything looked the same. But veteran oystermen knew better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: A Few Oysters R Back | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...beer chug-a-lugged tonight is not ipso facto the beginning of the road to fame, but for successful candidates it may eventually lead to topflight undergraduate position, and is in any case the first of a succession of bears and other good things to be enjoyed in the Plympton Street emporium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON COMPETITIONS FOR THREE BOARDS OPEN TONIGHT | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

...surrender to the Germans, four couriers chug-chugged by motorboat to the Greek mainland, put-putted by motorcycle to Yanina in Epirus, where their conquerors waited. The same evening Corfu authorities received a telegram accepting their submission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Italy Wins | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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