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Word: ging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample platitudes and homely phrases: "To essay too much at once may, by arousing opposition, imperil the plan." "In stead of applying the principle of self-education there has been too much drag ging of youth over the ground in perambulators and wondering why their running does not improve," An epigram Dr. Lowell borrows may be borrowed also by un friendly biographers as his epitaph: "We pride ourselves on being a practical people - which Disraeli somewhere described as men who practice the errors of their ancestors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lowell's Lessons | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...when conducting my log ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Real Pioneer v. Heartless Giants | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Gistermiddag zou te Middelburg een 49-jarige slagersknecht in de centrale slachtplaats een koe slachten. Op het oogenblik, dat hij het schot wilde afvuren, stootte de koe hem met den kop het pistool uit de handen. Door den val ging het schot af en trof den man in den bulk. Deze was dadelijk dood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/4/1930 | See Source »

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