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Word: frogging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cash, rather than honor older ones with kudos. Last week the $1,000 went to Carl Caskey Speidel, 38, associate professor of anatomy at the University of Virginia. He won it for inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body...

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

...Frog Taft, Fish Swanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...frog in my fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

This would be a HAM or FROG approximately 7 ft. long by 7 ft. wide by 6.19 ft. deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...assure you, your readers and Mr. Fitzgerald that Frog No. 20 was certainly capable of swallowing a larger Canadian goose, maybe two of these, or a whole flock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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