Word: hogging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that it was brought to his attention that Professor Pray is to lecture at 9 o'clock this morning in Robinson...
...been taken toward his identification, but if he is inclined to come forth at last from his long seclusion it is to be feared that upon perceiving that he has cast ahead of him such a shadow as this, he may bolt back into hiding like the ground hog to wait for a more favorable opportunity...
...Constructing Co. of Philadelphia and Dwight P. Robinson & Co. Inc. of Manhattan. The four already have contracts for $100,000,000 worth of work in the U. S., South America, Spain. At their head is Dwight Parker Robinson, 58, who, as first president of the International Shipbuilding Corp., developed Hog Island ship yards during the War. Before that he was Stone & Webster's master of engineering and construction activities. And before that he earned de- grees from both Harvard (A.B.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Vice President Woll advocated, and President Andrew Furuseth of the International Seamen's Union strenuously seconded, the repeal of the Sherman and Clayton Acts; the substitution of laws which would prevent industrial monopolies but not hog-tie industrial combinations...
Twelve women were entered. Some whistled, some yodeled, some called "John!" It was planned to hold a series of eliminations, pick a state champion. Interest in the contests has surpassed that in recent hog-calling tournaments. Rules announced: Call must be penetrating to reach husbands far on the prairie; must be of a kind to start husbands home, not in the opposite direction; contestants are restricted to calling their own husbands...