Word: devours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cannibals devour them; lions and tigers pounce upon them, claw and maul them to bits. They elbow their way through dense jungles, visiting and converting little pygmies and big black bucks. They fall ill of dread and curious diseases. From home they receive boxes of worn-out dresses, aprons, old hats, old pants for the natives. Chieftains salute them; witch-doctors harry them. Thus, traditionally, missionaries...
...that time unknown to the realm of sports writers, met the big Blue Team. The result of the mouse struggling with the mountain was inevitable: Yale ran up a score of sixty-six points, and, as if adding insult to injury, she sent in three complete teams to devour what was left of the carcass...
Once cold dawn last week, explosive flames spurted from the top floor of North Dakota's four-story brick Capitol at Bismarck. So quickly did they devour tindery old boards and plaster and dry bales of official papers, that by noon all that was left of the 46-year-old building was smoking rubble. When the State was still part of Dakkota Territory, frontiersmen traveled long western miles to stare in pride and wonder at the structure's once famed "gingerbread" architecture...
...single sitting last week Signor Benito Mussolini was observed to devour...
Fortnight ago from Athens, Ga., came word that Dr. H. J. Miller, professor of botany at the University of Georgia, had found an insect parasite known as bracon mellitor which he believes can be used to combat Boll Weevil. Its larvae will devour weevil larvae inside the bolls without damaging the cotton. Familiar to all entomologists is the general principle of pest control by parasites.* But before he could put his discovery into common use Dr. Miller had to hit upon a commercially practical method of spreading bracon mellitor larvae through weevil-infested cotton fields...