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...heard many tales from my Indians of a race called the Pogsa, which means animal people," stated Dr. McGovern to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "We managed to catch some of them, a most peculiar job. they speak a language which is a combination of clicks, clucks, and gutteral explosious. Their language caused us the most trouble. We would often use nine or ten interpreters to translate the language for us, one passing the story on to the next man, till it finally reached me, after being transferred from dialect to dialect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORBIDDEN CITY" VISITOR TO SPEAK | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...minutes while the boil goes on I stir it constantly with my long iron rabble. A cook stirring gravy to keep it from scorching in the skillet is done in two minutes and backs off blinking, sweating and choking, having finished the hardest job of getting dinner. But my hardest job lasts not two minutes but the better part of half an hour. My spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Iron Puddler, Moose | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Morton works an hour a day less than in England, but says that the job is harder owing to the antiquated equipment. The factory runs smoothly and is now producing " an output equal to pre-War times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Laugh | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...settled. The work of Morrill in goal on Monday night against the fast Canadians stamps him as an able successor to Captain Cumings of last year's champion team. Morrill now ranks a notch above Adams, who played through the McGill game last week. The two shared the goaltending job on the Freshman team two years ago, with Morrill rating as the regular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET READY FOR NOTRE DAME CLASH | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...Because of their pleasure-loving habits, fostered at college, which seriously interfere with their tackling a job in an earnest manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No College Men Need Apply--Eastern Executive, Contributor to Success Magazine, Has Had Fill of University Products | 1/4/1927 | See Source »