Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...
...situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking down an Alpine slope like a hunk of ice sliding off a tin roof...
Chief significance of 11,121,000 bale crop is that: 1) the world will probably consume at least 600,000 bales of U. S. cotton above this year's production, thereby taking a good hunk out of the 7,100,000 bale carryover; 2) Commodity Credit Corp. which still holds 3,028,675 bales as security for loans to farmers can partly bail itself out*; 3) a price rise of $2.50 a bale will mean $28,000,000 more income for U. S. farmers; 4) many U. S. cotton mills will show good 'profits as a result...
...were served each day, "dinner" at 11 o'clock and "supper" at 7.30 o'clock. The menu included bread, meat, and beer, with hasty pudding, or oatmeal porridge with eggs for variety. Those who wished an extra snack or two could have "bever" or a pot of beer and hunk of bread, served immediately after morning prayers and again at 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
...established system and a struggling young regime will meet this afternoon when Coach Hunk Anderson of Holy Cross and Coach Dick Harlow of Harvard pit their teams against each other in the Stadium. The contrast between the two men's elevens will be sharp, for one will send out a veteran outfit, the other a unit that has been thrown together during the course of the past week...