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Word: chomps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost immediately, Simons and Pilbeam noted that the jawbones lacked the large overlapping canine teeth that are characteristic of all apes. Thus, Rama could grind his food with manlike side-to-side movements. Apes, on the other hand, mostly chomp up and down on their food, since their canines prevent lateral motion of the jaws. The Yale investigators also decided that Rama's molars had emerged one after another, as in man, rather than almost simultaneously, as in apes. From this evidence they drew two important conclusions: 1) Rama probably ventured into open country to forage for tougher foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: The Age of Man | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

Philip Carey recalls the myths and leg ends surrounding the world of reptiles, and shows film of snakes as they charm and chomp their fellow creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern readers, faintly ludicrous letdown: Satan. The Old Gentleman looks like King Kong and does nothing but sit in his pit and chomp on Judas Iscariot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

...schools, 5000 miles of sewer, 20,000 traffic lights, 45,000 manufacturing plants, 2,820,000 trees. New Yorkers receive 13 billion pounds of perishable and 8.5 billion pounds of non-perishable foods annually; their subway vending machines yield close to 2,000,000 pounds of pennies. Daily, they chomp 3,500,000 pounds of meat, swig 460,000 gallons of beer, pull 21 miles of dental floss past their molars, guzzle and flush 1 billion gallons of water. The municipal corporation alone owns a physical plant worth more than $15 billion. And every facility is inadequate. No adjective...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: THE CITY | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

FORD. The long wait ends with a ride that is comfortable, interesting-and too short. Mustangs, Mercurys, Falcons, Comets, Thunderbirds and Lincoln Continentals carry 38,000 people daily through a dark tunnel into "the world that was," where dinosaurs chomp seaweed and volcanoes spew red-hot lava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 3, 1964 | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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