Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrill-Murderer Nathan Leopold, 44, who has served 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks back in 1924 (Partner Richard Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936), got a reward for his volunteer guinea-pig service in wartime malaria experiments: commutation of his term to 85 years (making him eligible to apply for a parole in January...
...corn crop meant that a big pig crop was a certainty. Last week top hog prices dropped $1.25 per hundredweight in Chicago, to only $2 above the $18.50 level at which the Government must start supporting hogs and thus add another expense to the support program...
...Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously as it had come...
...possible conclusion: whales and their kin were the real inventors of sonar.* What they used it for, men can only guess. Mrs. Fish found apparent confirmation of the theory in the pig-boats' logs: when a sub jammed the "enemy's signal by sending out its own sound waves, the transmission stopped. Evidently the whales were confused...
...Pigs Just Eat. This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as "liberated" inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: "We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs...