Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...Indoor Athletic Building the University basketball team overcame a sturdy quintet from the United States Coast Guard Academy in a game which until the last five minutes of play appeared to be a defeat for the Crimson. Winning 11 points in a little over seven minutes the Harvard players ate up the seven-point lead of the Cadets, and scooped victory from disaster, with a final score...
Officials of The Bronx Zoo, New York City, last week made their annual measurement of Khartoum, world's biggest captive elephant. They used a special elephant-gauge designed for surveying fractious elephants at a distance. Khartoum, although he ate 91,250 lb. of hay last year, had gained only one quarter-inch. This brings him to 10 ft. 84 in., one half-inch short of the world's elephant record for all time held by the late Jumbo, famed Victorian elephant...
...school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table was placed on the laboratory lawn, held on it a white cake with nine candles and nine big red apples. While the children sang "Happy Birthday to You" and shouted "Many happy returns," Doc Dobbin bobbed his head, ate all the apples, gobbled the whole cake in three Gargantuan bites...
...square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just as well eat apple sauce...