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Word: hogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackballed by the Quarryville, Pa. Slumbering Ground Hog Lodge. After pondering reports that Mr. Roosevelt is kind to ground hogs, the Lodge decided that he would be too busy to be an active member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White Week | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fat Stuff | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fat Stuff | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Lionel Hampden goes hog wild again on this two finger piano stuff in "I Found A New Baby." god help anybody who plays in his new band when it gets going this spring--he believes in the fastest tempos I've heard from a jam band in a long time. It isn't good saying, only attraction to it is the tempo...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

Atherton's survey was ordered by the Conference two years ago, when faculty delegates, after years of non-intervention while Pacific teams paid off the mortgages on some of the most glamorous football hippodromes in the U. S., decided to take a hand to keep commercialism from running hog-wild. Atherton, a stocky, black-maned, 43-year-old lawyer, onetime consular official and G-Man, now head of a Los Angeles investigating firm, started by questioning some 500 letter & numeral men on 1937 Conference teams. He got cooperation by promising: 1) no punishments, 2) no publication of details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pacific Simon-Purity | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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