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Eight new champions were created in the University wrestling bouts yesterday afternoon at the Indoor Athletic Building when the groan and grunt finals for 1936 were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURAL MAT CROWN GOES TO CHIEF BOSTON | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

...this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never say die (Dickens, 1837). Silence in the pig-market, and let the old sow have a grunt (1894). Three classes of clergy: Nimrods, ramrods, and fishing-rods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Sayings | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

...Grunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

What a fine exhibition of bad taste the "tycoons" of utilities displayed when Mr. McCarter proposed a toast "To the President of the United States!" as reported in your Dec. 23 issue. Makes me believe the old saying, "Expect nothing from a pig but a grunt," holds good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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