Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promise in a "suspension of disbelief" while awaiting the verdict of investigation. And it can be suggested that, even if the scientist should be excused as a quack, he may at least have the prospect of making a living in another way. For a certain boy, on whom a pig's eye was grafted recently, although unable to see clearly has entered a career on the vaudeville stage, and, with the pig as his co-partner, is "doing nicely...
...upon present business conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
...attempt of a partly blind youth to make money by a partly blind pig...
Recently a doctor grafted a portion of a pig's eye on the eyeball of a blind boy, Alfred Lemonowicz, of Paterson, N. J. According to reports the operation was partly successful-the young boy is able to see slightly. At any rate, the attendant publicity has secured the young man a contract to appear in vaudeville with the pig...
...Roberts of the White Star liner Baltic has sought to vary the season's program with a description of the discovery of a sea monster in mid-Atlantic. Twelve feet long and nine feet around, of dark brown or black color, ears and snout similar to that on a pig--it seems to be a monster not otherwise known outside of the medieval "Bestiaries...