Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pig iron and iron kentledge, the President raised the tariff from 75c to $1.12½ a ton; on gold leaf, from 55c to 82½c per 100 leaves. Meanwhile, last week the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals upheld the flexible Tariff Act of 1922 which authorizes the President to raise or lower the tariff within limits...
...Pig...
...friends with a myth. The latter was a most genteel, non-cannibalistic, Stone-age race of pygmies whose existence in the mountain fastnesses had been rumored but never proved. After some flitting through the undergrowth and bird-like calling back and forth, the pygmies presented their visitors with fatted pig, and posed affably-like milk chocolate babies with ruddy fuzz on their polls-for reels and reels of cinema. They explained why their married women lacked a forefinger: it was chopped off by the husband, as a honeymoon salutation. Before chopping, the husband had to qualify in bravery by letting...
...together. Just how and where is not known. Farm-bill men agreed to let the bank bill pass, bank-bill men agreed to vote for a vote on the farm-bill. And last week the farm bill, which a month ago had been as dead as a pig in a stockyard, commanded the immediate attention of the Senate?with an even chance of passing by a narrow margin. Thus with two neat strokes of strategy, the farmers were in sight of that land of milk and honey which the government had for five years told them was never-never land...
...Cambridgeport, indeed! What would it be without Harvard? A collection of slaughter houses, a pig-killing village. Whoever heard of Cambridge but as the seat of Harvard University, from which it got its very name...