Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to grasp the real magnitude of the meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco...
Like the fabulous hedge hog, the well-known "Cap and gown" agitation pokes its nose through the frozen ground about this time of every year, and promptly retires, to prolong its hibernation until the last possible moment. The agitation is due to the worthy but usually unsuccessful effort of the Class Committee to get an inert and rebellious Senior Class properly begowned and be-capped at least soon enough for the Class picture...
Great interest naturally has attached to the recent discoveries of Mr. Hammond and Professor Chaffee in the field of wireless. By employing a sort of ethereal "hog-Latin" they are able to send out a jumble of waves which can only be understood by those in possession of the "key". All those who have ever enjoyed (?) the luxury of hearing Mary Garden, Sousa's Band and Bert Lowe's dance orchestra working away merrily at one and the same time on 360 meters will no doubt be delighted with this new system for secret wireless communication. To be sure...
Complaints are coming from the libraries, especially now when there are examinations and the demand for books is unusually great. The cause of these complaints is found in persons who may be grouped into two classes: the book robber and the book "hog". As regards the first, when a person has the nerve to walk up to the desk and, after forging a signature to a book receipt and writing down any address that enters his head, departs, never to be seen or heard from again, it is time to take drastic action concerning him. The same may be said...
...second class of offender may well be termed a book "hog"--an individual whose motto seems to be "Education at any price". After stating on the receipt filled out at the reading room desk that he will sit at a certain table, such a person deliberately goes else where so that when the time limit of one hour is up, he can continue to use the book unmolested, although others are waiting. Such action can not be excused on the grounds of carelessness or ignorance; it is taken for granted that students can read the few simple library rules that...