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Word: farrowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because sows will farrow, because piglets will grow up into fat hogs regardless of Government decrees, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has been hard put to devise a means of reducing the swine surplus comparable to the plow-under of cotton. Last week A. A. A. accepted in principle a price-upping plan from the National Corn-Hog Producers Committee of 25 which had been grappling with the problem in ten States for a month. The scheme's whole purpose was to get 500,000,000 Ib. of live pork out of the way by Jan. i, four times that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Pigs to Market | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...Unlike Author Joyce, who called Ireland "the old sow that eats her farrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rise & Decline* | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

Joyce is as little popular with his brother Irish as with his mother Church: once he called his native country "the old sow that eats her farrow." He has been back to Ireland only twice since he left: in 1904 to open Dublin's first cinema; the last time in 1912. In 1904 he married Nora Barnacle, Galway girl; they have two children; Singer George, Dancer Lucia (who last year wrote a play about a girl who fell in love with the Pont Alexandre-Trois, famed Paris bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscopic Recamera | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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