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Word: chews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAIN AND THE CHAFF | 11/6/1929 | See Source »

...does not drink, smoke, or chew. He likes to walk, dislikes to golf. He has not played cards for 30 years, but enjoys hearing music. In physique he is small, slender. His nickname, ''Baldy," has a certain amount of justification, what hairs remain are greying. Every Sunday he goes to the Presbyterian Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Actually Secretary Stimson's goat, the one attributed to him, which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World Court | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...Chew on Decapitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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