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...obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted in court. Most had to work from sunrise to sunset, and often longer. They ate from a common trough like pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black Abolitionist | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Crowding around the display tables like pigs at a trough, Harvard bibliophiles mobbed the fifth annual Bryn Mawr Book Sale in its opening skirmishes yesterday. In the two hours of the sale a mixed multitude of students, book dealers, kindly old ladies, and Harvard faculty members battled for positions and bought 3600 volumes of "Fiction, Literature and Ten-Cent Miscellany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booklovers Battle at Bryn Mawr Sale | 4/23/1963 | See Source »

...growth as an actress, with a soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: More Curio Than Classic | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...ideal figure for modern hogs features large meaty hams. To produce these delicacies, says Dr. Hubert Heitman Jr., professor of animal husbandry at the University of California at Davis, hogs should get ham-building exercise. He tested his theory by building a stand-up feeding trough with a cleated shelf in front on which the hogs could rest their feet. "It's sort of like a person eating off a mantel," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agronomy: Exercise for Hams | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...howitzers beside the track blast away at the decelerating sled. Their shells, moving at 1,088 m.p.h., quickly catch up with the target, slam into it, and are stopped with scarcely a scratch by a bale of synthetic rubber. Then the sled itself splashes to a stop in a trough of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Protecting the Package | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

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