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Word: dog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, Georges Meunier saw a dog coming towards him. whose looks he did not like at all. Fearing that the dog was about to bite him, Georges Meunier bit the dog first. Police arrested him. Said Georges Meunier: "I decided to get him before he got me. Anyhow, I never knew it was an offense to bite a dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Salesman | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Beverly Hills, energetic old Cinemactress May Robson, 73, tripped over her pet dog, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

After a rehearsal of the Portland, Ore. stadium Philharmonic orchestra, Cleveland's Dr. Artur Rodzinski went to spend a day with his favorite animals: goats. On the way out he discussed them. Excerpt: "Goats are the sweetest pets, better than a dog. No, no, no, only the gentleman goat smells bad. You must put him in a pen half a mile away from the lady goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...with his prime tenet-that the General Staff should not find him a pliant Secretary-Louis Johnson takes an impish delight in upsetting army dogma and army officers. Though it is distinctly outside his province as Assistant Secretary, he once decided that too many enlisted men were serving as dog-robbers (officers' servants). A series of telegrams and cables querying every army post confirmed this conclusion, resulted in a marked reduction in the number on dog-duty. At present Mr. Johnson (himself a Lieutenant Colonel of Reserves) is concerned with the army's overgrown list of colonels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Arms Before Men | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Four months ago, a Pan American subsidiary, Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., started overland service from Juneau to Fairbanks via White Horse, Canada. Pacific Alaska was fashioned in 1932 out of two independent lines, operating round Alaska at random in competition with dog teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: North to the Arctic | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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