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Word: frogging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your magazine a year, I want to inform you, gentlemen, that I'm about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Last week Song Sleuth Spaeth turned to song lyrics, dealing in his first program with animal lyrics. Greatest and most universal of these, said he, is "Frog Went a-Courtin'," which is paralleled in the current "Wedding Party of Mickey Mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tune Detective | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...perform. The Republican National Committee had arranged for her to address the Federation of Republican Women's Clubs at Detroit early this month. Soon thereafter the Business & Professional Republican Women's Club of Boston would be waiting to hear her. The Second Lady had to get the frog out of her throat so she could give these audiences some of the oratory that lately has made her a big drawing card in the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Second Lady | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Visitors interested in Americaua will also be attracted to the unusual first editions of Mark Twain, loaned by B. E. Pollack '32, including "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Following the Equator," with an autograph copy of the author's dedication, and "Huckle berry Finn," printed in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/20/1932 | See Source »

Heat & Sex, The outer case of an egg is its female element, the stuffing its male element, with temperature determining the predominance of either, contended Dr. Emil Witschi of the University of Iowa. To support his argument he showed pictures of incubating frog eggs. Those which were maintained at 59° F. grew thick shells, became female polliwogs. Those maintained at 82° F. developed big insides, turned into male tadpoles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Winter Medley | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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