Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chunk out of the market." He quoted...
took another chunk." the witness related...
...company was by all odds the biggest family-owned steel business in the land. The money-$30,000,000-was for expansion, not refunding. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. was ready to build in its Pittsburgh works a new continuous strip-sheet mill, which is an exceedingly expensive chunk of machinery...
...warm days in January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood of roller skates...
Beer was practically the only beverage used during the college's first century. Fifty-five undergraduates, consumed on the average of 270 barrels of beer a year. It was drunk at all meals as water was considered unwholesome. Breakfast known as "morning bever" consisted of beer and a chunk of bread. "Afternoon bever" preceded prayers at five o'clock in the afternoon...