Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dramatic Club's doings. Surrealism, safe from parody because nobody could tell the difference between the two, is highly susceptible to derision, and in the course of the evening it gets its. Even the English peerage is not forgotten, but you should see by now what a colossal chunk this jolly entertainment has bitten off for itself...
...present-day francs at 31% was oversubscribed 40 times on the first day. Last week 5,000,000,000 francs of the new loan at 4 1/2 were subscribed within eight hours. Delighted MM. Blum & Auriol four days later offered another 2,500,000,000 chunk of their 10,500,000,000 issue, "the largest peacetime loan in the history of France," and the French Parliament prepared to adjourn over Easter with broad smiles...
...popped Dr. S. Spafford Ackerly of Louisville, famed among neurologists and psychiatrists for his post-operative treatment of a woman, who, despite an excision of a big chunk of her brain, remained placid and intelligent (TIME, May 27, 1935). Exulted bold Dr. Ackerly...
...small piece of the Grecian peninsula where it attaches to Europe proper, in the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. When Philip was assassinated it had tripled its size, included Paeonia, the coast of Thrace down to the Hellespont, the islands of Samothrace and Lemnos, and a chunk of Thessaly. The people of Macedon were peasants, of purer Nordic blood than the Athenians, Greek in language, and very nearly Greek in sympathies...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...