Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Weco Products Co. (Dr. West's) marketed the first toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter...
...hard to embarrass as a wart hog, Ed Kelly had The Truth formally received and approved by the City Council. Then he departed for New York City to enjoy the World Series...
Heretofore, U. S. investment trusts have barely dabbled in underwriting. Tri-Continental and Selected Industries have occasionally participated in the underwritings of new issues in a very small way; Atlas Corp. has done the same. Paradoxically, last week when Tri-Continental and Selected Industries finally went whole hog into underwriting, they declared that Union Securities Corp. would shun the practice that has been the No. 1 argument for investment trusts going into underwriting-that they can absorb on behalf of their stockholders the remainder of any issue that the public refuses...
Your Lincoln, Neb. correspondent is right about the hog on ice and wrong about the hog going to war. He approaches his opponent slowly and obliquely so as to make best use of his tusks...
...Come here at once, and don't sidle up to me like a hog going to war." my mother used to say to me, soap in one hand, a wet cloth in the other...