Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring. In Priest River, Idaho, Farmer J. C. Thomas swore that he saw a bear pick up his 300-lb. brood sow, jump the 4-ft. hog lot fence, and dash off with her into the hills...
Twentieth Century officials readily admit that the stock options are a move to 1) give Skouras a bonus; 2) hog-tie him to the company by inducing him to acquire a sizable stock interest (see below...
Problem of Evil. For Herriman's creatures, neither animal nor human, the scratchy, tersely subtle drawing, the hog-Elizabethan talk and supralunar world of Krazy Kat were entirely his own - a new private universe of fantasy, irony, weird characterization, odd beauty. It looks as simple as daylight, this illimitably varied, unchanging little comedy about the noble-souled, loony, amorous Kat who loves to have his bean creased by the brick that malicious Ignatz Mouse loves to throw, while Dogberryish Offisa Pupp, the stolidly distraught embodiment of the Law, tries, and forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament...
...first 181 Liberty ships. Remaining profit per ship: $25,000. The Maritime Commission declared this the standard by which all yards in the original Liberty-ship program will be renegotiated. The Commission estimates the cost of Liberties at some $157 per deadweight tons v. $255 for the Hog Islanders of World War I. Builders' profits, if kept to the Kaiser level...
With Hanson giving out with the accounting in Baker A, and not-to-be-out-done Beckham authorizing advances in Baker B, the feeling of the called hog is becoming, natural to both companies. Let us hope the good lieutenant will see justification for inserting the tougher parts of Gravert Leather into the disbursing final...