Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 2½ billion years ago, a ball of whirling gases, intensely hot and rushing through the black spaces of the universe at immense speed, gradually became the earth. At one point, a great chunk of earthly substance was torn away-and the earth had a moon. The atmosphere developed, then came countless years of rain, filling in great gaps on the earth's surface. Thus the oceans were born...
...Very Large." Repeatedly in his testimony, to the irritation of Senators, General Marshall withheld passages and facts from the Senators on security grounds, and he insisted that many of his words-in one case, a chunk of more than eight pages-be censored out of the public transcript...
MacVicar put his theory to the test, using the Amherst chemistry lab's electric furnace. On the second try, he succeeded. Impressed, Geology Professor George W. Bain handed MacVicar his favorite specimen, a chunk of pre-Cambrian limestone from the great Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, world's largest supply of uranium. After slowly heating the stone to 1,800° C. and letting it cool slowly, MacVicar painstakingly brushed away the powdered lime and uncovered the fragile, microscopic remains of a billion-year-old sponge. Dr. Bain described it as "among the oldest [fossils] yet discovered...
...last week was a short-order cook with a favorite recipe for frying the fat out of Harry Truman's $71.6 billion budget.† The trouble was that most of the recipes were the old hit-or-miss kind handed down from grandmother's kitchen-take a chunk of executive expenditures, mix with a heaping tablespoon of Social Security appropriations and simmer until done...
When he got back, somebody had made off with a big chunk of his powers as boss of the Office of Price Stabilization...