Word: devours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City. Harry Greb, middleweight champion, who has acquired the preposterous habit of fighting as if he enjoyed it, of training in baggage cars while touring the country to seek whom he may devour, flattened one Ed Smith of Neodosha, Kan., in four rounds...
...above all Harvard men seem to be judges of beauty. Though they devour College Humor, and know Captain Billy by heart, with the magazines of pictures their interest is keenest. At one store, at lest, the American Art Student and Art and life sell as fast as the Saturday Evening Post...
Lust is a serpent twining with subtle coil a man and a woman whom fires devour...
...settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line, then drop into the slower, mile-devour- ing pace while the winner's partner collected the prize money...
...apparent disregard of Americans for Asiatic foreign affairs in general, and Japanese problems specifically, is most astounding," he declared. "They seem to devour the speeches and troubles of Europe with great avidity, but how often does one see the speech of a Japanese statesman or a study of current Japanese internal conditions printed in an American newspaper? You cannot deny that we Japanese are considered of very little news value...