Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years Founder C. A. Taylor and his Farm Life made money. Many a farm implement, fertilizer, chicken brood, hog litter was advertised in its pages. When circulation reached 750,000, Founder Taylor became even more ambitious. "We can have 1,000,000 circulation," said he. Highly-paid salesmen solicited subscriptions. Premiums were offered. A million circulation for Farm Life became a civic goal in Spencer. At last the goal was reached, passed. Farm Life had 1,115,000 subscribers listed...
Herr Schmeling was being cautious. His opponent's long left arm was flying over-head very frequently. Senor Uzcudun was clumsy. His nose is so flattened on his face that a punch on it makes him snort for breath like a prize hog. It seemed best to him to cross his big bony arms in front of his face to protect it from Schmeling's choppy thrusts, to bend over forward and try to butt Schmeling around to where he could be hit by a wild-swinging attack. After he found the range, Uzcudun thrashed often and heavily into Schmeling...
...practice the advisability of going the whole hog in offering independence and full responsibility to the student may indeed be frowned upon. . .and with considerable reason. Nor are the professors to be criticized for the inability or unwillingness to grant this academic entre-acte. But by the same tokens the enthusiastic assertions of the college authorities in support and praise of the reading period should wait upon a broader investigation of the facts...
...filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that by his very presence Marion would attain a renown not unlike Dayton, Tenn., and Marion, Ohio. They were mortified that his intellectual friends should learn that Marion still had hog-zoning laws, that Marion edited both its Democratic and its Republican paper in one & the same shop...
...When a hog-raiser buys a sausage-factory, nothing could seem more natural to the man-in-the-street...