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TIME uses Webster's International, retaining editorial license. To the TIME ear it seems that a steam locomotive says "chuff" when it starts up, not "chug," the sound of antique motorcycles and fishermen's power boats.-ED. Sister of M. L. S. Sirs...
...Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska, the Coast Guardsmen would chug out to follow them, to guard them in their curious hegira...
...Chug. Late arrivals, coming from...
Chicago convention of Midwestern Dance Masters told about and demonstrated two graceful midwestern dances, the "Sorority Sway" and "Sea Gull Waltz"; also a choppy one called the "Chug...
...look forward to the time when there will be ... games with colleges in the United States." In the U. S., the arrival of September brought the breath of autumn, the chug of preseason punts. From the colleges issued long publicity screeds on the sport which supports all the other sports...