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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apropos of the footnote re "Badgered Doctors " p. 51, TIME for Aug. 25, animadverting the fair name of Wisconsin and the progenitors of her citizens be informed that your definition is unusually mendacious. TIME quotes Webster substantiating its statement. To refute Webster I also quote Webster's New International Dictionary (India Paper Edition...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...Maverick?an unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf, formerly customarily claimed by the first one branding it." (Webster...
...Stone & Webster and Blodget...
...badger in this sense derives, not from the old English pastime of baiting badgers but, according to Webster, from the nickname for natives of Wisconsin, "The Badger State," who once enjoyed a reputation for cheating, trickery...