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Word: woodchuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divulge the texts. It was with reference to this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Reactions to Roosevelt | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow admitted that her husband's opinions were familiar to the family, "but we have always seen to it that the youngsters enjoyed the holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident. In South Bend, Ind. Footballer William Shakespeare, who played three years in Notre Dame's backfield without injury, went picnicking, stepped in a woodchuck hole, lamed himself so thoroughly he had to take to crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...knew it was all right as soon as Russia's Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff took him in to meet Joseph Stalin, in whose face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Best Bargain | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Attacking said cow, which belongs to the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, armed only with a hacksaw and speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BIG GAME HUNTERS PLACE COW AMONG TROPHIES | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

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