Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become a millionaire or President, sailed from France 29 years ago one Charles Eugene Bedaux. Although slight in stature and of no great muscle, this ambitious little Frenchman promptly took the highest paid job he could qualify for in Manhattan as an unskilled laborer, that of a "sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which...
...Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with the original Spanish...
Ugliest animal in The Bronx, according to Messrs. Ditmars & Bridges, is Clarence, the wart hog, whose keeper stoutly defends him as "the nicest animal in the zoo." Rarest animal is the new okapi (TIME, Aug. 10). Now that Dr. Ditmars has it, what he wants most is an Australian earth worm twelve feet long...
...circumstance which prevents doctors going the whole hog in the case of Sulfanilamide is that they do not know whether it cures by killing germs and virus in the body or by stimulating the body to kill the invaders with its own, natural protective forces. And conscientious doctors use no drugs ignorantly. Another objection to Sulfanilamide is the fact that its toxicity is not known. After curing some people of blood poisoning, it seems to have caused agranulocytosis (a dangerous deficiency of white blood cells). When a doctor must decide between blood poisoning which is killing his patient...
...drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...