Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considerable time in compiling statistics of the vocabularies of persons in different walks of life. A high school freshman, according to him, under stands 66,650 words, a 4-year-old child, 1700, and a university senior 94.05 Sophomores have a speaking acquaintance with 70,000 words. An intelligent dog is reputed to know 12 words...
...rangers fighting a forest fire in the Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids...
...State of North Dakota outlaws bird dogs. Imagine the bird hunter deprived of his dog! . . . What was a people's sport, in which all the people, irrespective of fortune, participated, tends to become the sport of the rich...
...Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."- TIME...
...Helen's Babies nothing remains save the dim figure of a kind uncle, and a phrase, "Wants shee wheels go wound." Hector My Dog, Bob Son of Battle, Stviss Family Robinson; even The Jungle Books, the Henty Books, Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, and Little Lord Fauntieroy's lace collar and filial perfection* where are they? Gone, all gone, yet once the child that knew them not was plainly a barbarian...