Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair Lawn, N. J., when someone stole the little white pig on which John Clauss conducts his experiments in pig medicine, Clauss advertised that the pig had just been inoculated with a poisonous serum, added. "I just want the people who took my white pig to know that my other pig is filled with poisonous serum...
...involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
Cheerfully violating a St. Paul ordinance against taking pigs into public buildings, Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring marched into the office of Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson to deliver a 265-lb. prize Hampshire piglet named Floyd of Rosedale which he had lost to Governor Olson in a bet on the Iowa-Minnesota football game (TIME, Nov. 18). Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor...
...Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President Roosevelt and absolutely distinct from the League of Nations. Since she is rearming herself as rapidly as possible, Germany has no arms to sell to others; but coal, pig iron, steel, basic war materials of which she has a surplus, she will continue to seil to whoever will buy. Last week Adolf Hitler let it be known that he will stand no nonsense from Capitalists attempting to make speculative purchases in Germany of material the Fatherland needs for its own war machine...
...Irish landlady has placed the latest feather in Julian Coolidge's cap. As owner and mistress of a Plympton Street "pig-sty" near Lowell House she is reputed to have recently held out for $42,000 when the University bid for her property. Said she, glancing toward Mr. Coolidge's domain, "My Jim brought me here when this place was all a dump, and now that I have such good neighbors, by God, I mean to stay...