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Word: hogs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court I don't blame you. How in hell do you think we can keep New Jersey on the map with you birds talking this way? Put some sex in it. Where's the Hog Lady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

...Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose headquarters were at the dump ground was kept under observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prisoner | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Ralph Pulitzer, editor* of the New York World (Democratic Manhattan daily): "I returned to the U. S. with my brother Herbert from a five-months' hunting trip in Africa, where I shot two lions, a lioness, a kudu (spiral-horned ante- lope), a wart hog, a water buffalo, a rhinoceros, many another quad- ruped and some birds. My shots killed all these creatures except the rhinoceros, whose neck my bullet entered, lacerating the beast to charging fury. My guide checked it with an accurate shot. I told newsgatherers that I had become so fond of African sport I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Suppose a radio station were set up at Moscow of sufficient potency to drown or "crash through" the programs of U. S. broadcasters. Suppose radio listeners in the grain and hog belts of the U. S. found their favorite station blotted out by an ether tidal wave of Communist propaganda. Would, or would not, the millions of U. S. listeners-in force the Administration into contact with the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Waves | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...Quiet in the hog sty!" bellowed Prussian Communists. "Silence in the robbers' den!" roared Prussian Fascists. Amid stentorian shouts for stillness, all proceedings in the Prussian Landtag were temporarily abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bloodcurdling | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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