Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tampas, Col., Mrs. Thomas Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled down and went to sleep...
...such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME, Oct. 21). Hog stomachs are being tested. Neither of these affected Professor Gordon's cases. An ingenious ratiocinator, he figured that the younger liver was, the greater might be its power of stimulating blood formation. His persuasiveness induced the Government's meat inspectors to release him sufficient fetal livers...
...fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans me', I said. 'You see I'm new at the game, just started last week'. 'Oh, well in that case', he said, 'no one can say I'm a hog; here take ten back. Now run along and make your deliveries; I'll watch your car while you're gone...
Legislative Hobbies: A resolution authorizing the Government to undertake extensive research in the cause and cure of cancer ("Millions are spent on hog diseases, why not a few on people?"); a bill to place Mexicans and other Latin Americans under the immigration quota, so that they can no longer freely enter...
...about 50¢ per gallon, whale oil is used mainly for soap production. Although many whalers bring back only oil, others are prepared to render all the byproducts, used chiefly for fertilizer and cattle meal. Thrifty Japanese treat a whale as thoroughly as they do a hog. The meat is sold in tins. In Tokyo, the tips of whale tails are considered the height of delicacy. The Arctic Right Whale, once valued at $10,000 each because of the fine corset stays it yielded, is no longer greatly desired, is practically free to cavort, make love, furiously batter its head against...