Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to be maudlin about this business, but they do feel an attachment to Harvard and a desire for its continued well-being and succuss as a pioneer in education. This sentiment they would like to express in a quiet, expenseless sort of way by observing at least a fragment of the peacetime Commencement tradition. Robert B. Wilcox...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
Mary Welsh was in London for every one of its 400-odd air raids. Once a shell fragment sailed through the window of her Berkeley Square flat, nicked her left ear and shattered the sugar bowl on the table. She got down on her hands and knees to salvage the sugar before she patched up her ear. In those days her friendships in the R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front...
...Bayou spiders with gold and silver dust for a treacherous daughter's highfalutin wedding. But the latter part of Drivin' Woman is an account of the bracing fight of the small tobacco farmers against the Trust. Descriptions of raising, grading, priming and selling tobacco result in a fragment of U.S. social-and-economic history so simple and sound that not even Mrs. Chevalier's panchromatic prose can make it much less...
...Similar conditions still persist in the interiors of several stars, of which an egg-sized fragment weighs tons...