Word: slop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late last month a 21-year-old West Virginia mother, who had had two previous children, unknowingly bore her third while easing herself over a slop jar. Her husband unwittingly emptied the jar into the backhouse. There, 40 minutes later, Dr. Bittinger found an 8-lb. boy, cold and quiet but still alive. Commented Dr. Bittinger: "If this baby survives, it will have a fine history, especially if it runs for President...
...college does not appear yet to have come to grips with this problem. If men show they are unwilling or incapable of taking advantage of the expensive opportunities of the Tutorial System, do not let them slop through four wasted years. Give them an education they deserve and need; an extra course per year, hour examinations, quizzes, and attendance. This will quickly stimulate the gifted to return into the fold, and will at least give a real, rounded education for the rest. Under this plan, the progress of the past few years, more and more graduates with honors, fewer...
...first string backfield is one of the most powerful was here in many a year. Most prominent of the four is Buich besten, a stripling of come 156 pounds, who runs, kicks, and passes with equal case. Besten is the weighty member of the quartet which slop includes Brooks, Lapien, and Anoty Harding, whose pace scored the Harvard touchdown on Saturday...
Long: Mr. President, they have not drunk any coffee. They think they have drunk coffee. That stuff is nothing but slop. If Senators had ever had a cup of coffee down in Louisiana, they would realize that there was no one in Washington who knew how to make coffee...
Last week citizens of small Cherryfield, Me. & vicinity were being treated to a sight on a par with that of a king rummaging in a slop barrel. Some of last year's drought-starved Western cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...