Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
...print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936 he began spending $7.000,000 of city and WPA money for an airport at Hog Island in the Delaware River marshes southwest of town-a field to be named S. Davis Wilson Airport...
...there the barking dog is muzzled; for without a center or paid manager to organize teams, practices, and games the dormitories are helpless. Yet now that their right to belong in the intra-mural system has been recognized, it should be possible to go the whole hog and give them a center--(a bulletin board in the Athletic Building would suffice)--manager, and permission to participate in other House sports. And governed by the existing rules, which forbid men on probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested...
...invested in short-term loans for liquidity, produces virtually no income (interest on 91-day Treasury bills, for example, is only .027%). The few big banks doing well today are those like Chicago's Continental Illinois National and New York's Manufacturers Trust, which have gone whole hog into buying Government bonds...
This sounded to Occidentals who know the Orient as if Japan proposes to slam the "Open Door" to Occidental trade with China, hog it herself, and renounce the Washington Nine Power Treaty of 1922. In confirmation of these fears the Japanese Foreign Office official spokesman declared in Tokyo: "Japan considers the Nine Power Treaty obsolete or 'dead.' Whether we will denounce it or withdraw has not yet been decided. The [Japanese] Government is examining the advantages of creation of a Tri-Power Pact [of Japan, Manchukuo and China...