Word: frogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geography, science and civics. The examinations were in the form of printed statements which the examinees marked true or false. The second, third and fourth days, the 48 boys and 48 girls saw eight short cinemas, made by Fox, dealing with geography, science (development of glaciers, life of a frog), history and civics (immigrant learning about U. S. Government agencies and their functions). Then they took examinations much like the first ones but more difficult, to see how much they had learned...
...falsetto and bass but also performs duets with itself will next November join that operatic zoo which includes the lyrical Forest Bird and the Dragon Fafner in Wagner's Siegfried; the Cock in Rimsky- Korsakov's Coq d'Or and the Fishes in his Sadko; the Frog-Man in Respighi's Sunken Bell. This cow, it was announced last week, is a character in Jack and the Beanstalk, a new opera composed by Louis Gruenberg to the libretto of Author-Professor-Pianist John Erskine. First of a projected series of native U. S. operas, it will...
...sport has grown so that there were 150 frogs assembled, of all types, all sizes. The rules allowed the owners to place their entries on a line, say "Go!", make them hop three times. Only other rule: Each frog might be shaken to insure against the traditional buckshot...
...from Berlin and "streamlined" by a bath in wart-remover, the frog Wilhelm was a betting favorite. But while the crowd shrieked, jostled, fired revolvers, he covered only 4 ft. 8 in. in his three jumps. A pampered creature called Zenobia, imported from Kinston, N. C. in a tub of native water, raised cheers by doing 8 ft. 6 in. Then Angels Camp went wild as the bright green veteran Budweiser thrust thrice with his long green legs, shot down the course 11 ft. 5 in., was declared winner...
Prouder and richer was Louis Fisher of Stockton, Calif., Budweiser's owner, who also won with him in 1928 and whose other frog. Pride of the San Joaquin, won las: year, establishing the record of 12 ft. 10-in. (TIME, June...