Word: fiercer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profuse externals of the city. As he fed, self-consciousness awoke and introspection tickled and whetted his emotional appetites. These he celebrated with loose living and brilliant adjectival bombinations, in print and conversation. As he became conscious of the Winkelbergs, their repulsiveness deepened his subjectivity into fiercer and fiercer hunger for experience, a hunger that consumed life and fed, most gruesomely, upon itself. When he married Stella Winkelberg it was largely to inflict a wound upon the body Winkelberg and to revel in the gradual perversion of one of its members...
...Stagg Field, Chicago, there was carnage. All unwitting, a team from Indiana strayed in and fell prey to the fierce Chicago backfield, the potent Chicago line. When all was over, folk said Chicago is fiercer this year than any conference eleven-except Illinois. The score, which could have been worse: Chicago 23, Indiana...