Word: chewed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Studebaker stockholders had other strong food to chew on last week. This was the report of the test of swift endurance, run by a stock Studebaker at Culver City, Calif. In 81 hours a four-passenger, closed model, six-cylinder car covered 5,000 miles (equivalent of six months' ordinary driving) at an average speed of 61.12 miles per hour.* No fully equipped stock car had previously been put through a 5,000-mile speed-endurance test. So Studebaker has a record...
This malted irony suddenly appeared in Der Tag, potent Berlin newspaper owned by Herr Alfred Hugenberg, the late Hugo Stinnes' publicist: "The envious glance of the Yankee turns to rich and flourishing Germany. . . . These [German] barbarians do not even chew gum, but smoke tobacco prodigally and vulgarly. They drink real beer, eat mountains of cake with whipped cream instead of American ice cream and they consume butter, milk, eggs, poultry, and even fruit. Finally, they still drink coffee...
Harry S. New, U. S. Postmaster General: "A disturbance confronted me as I approached my house in Washington one afternoon last week. Two neighborhood dogs were attempting to chew up my dog. I intervened, separated the snarling trio, had my right hand mangled. Said I, later: 'I was the only one bitten in the fray. All the dogs emerged unhurt...
...Berlin, one Dr. Troska took a sharp knife, placed it on a piece of beefsteak, exerted a pressure of 800 pounds, thereby calculated the amount of energy necessary for each human chew of meat. A dog, said he, expends energy equal to 3,200 pounds in biting through a bone. Scientists scoffed, said that Chewer-Experimenter Troska was wasting his time...
Foods. "We are neglecting whole wheat bread, crusty bread, raw vegetables, sorghum molasses and unsalted butter. We ought to eat our lettuce just as it grows. Instead we cut it up first into tiny bits so that we won't have to chew it. This nation today is consuming sugar at the rate of 100 pounds a person a year, as against 30 pounds before the Revolutionary War. That's another failing on our part, our national tooth is too sweet."-Professor John A. Marshall, University of California...