Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game he can still get with a full license includes three lions, leopard, cheetah, lynx, common hippopotamus, crocodile, hyena, wild dog, jackal, wart hog, badger, baboon, civet, buffalo, ordinary zebra, waterbuck, wildebeest, impala reedbuck, eland gazelle, the lesser kudu...
...particular, but it riles me to think that you consider these men-and other men of long-wealthy families-superior to me by birth. . . . The human race hasn't been worked on by professional breeders-yet. It's different with hogs, and guinea pigs. You can mate animals experimentally, and by doing a good job of matchmaking for many, many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies...
...hysteria and tears, tottered out weeping. The appointment as his successor of Robert Anthony Eden, a handsome young man with ancestors who were Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, was the one logical move in a British fortnight of illogic. In the popular mind "Eden" stands for going whole hog against Italy, but in the House of Commons he has said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed by Britons. This stand by popular young Captain Eden promised well for a peaceful solution, except that the personal antipathy between...
...cotton contract lasts for four years, the corn-hog contract for two years but both can be canceled at the close of any season by Government or farmers...
...crop reduction of 30% to 45% below normal, it does not represent as stiff a cut as has been demanded by Southern Senators who want to boost the price of cotton. This fact, in conjunction with the smaller reduction in corn planting and no reduction at all in hog raising, indicates AAA's present belief that farm prices are not likely to flop, that those who want still higher prices are less to be feared than the loss of markets, the howls of consumers...