Word: maw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Natural History, to help & advise, mediate & make peace. So tactful was the peacemaker that when the smoke had cleared it was observed that the dismembered monster-the neck from Washington, the tail from Pittsburgh, the head and body from Utah-had all traveled to Manhattan and into the maw of the American Museum...
...great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion's port between its tides into the very maw of the infinite, all-taking ocean...
...hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
...post-War expansion during which it acquired a string of lithograph companies and a $3,000,000 debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob A. Voice scraped together all the profits the company had, pledged his personal stock and life insurance policies to borrow $500,000 from Commercial Investment Trust, specialists in automobile financing. With the money...
...chief island of Honshu is shaped like a huge-headed dragon swooping southwestward and snapping at the two smaller islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. One night last week a gentle breeze from the North Pacific was wafting across the two little islands and into the dragon's maw. At 4 o'clock the next morning a juggernaut of air hit, without warning, the frail little houses that crowd the southern tip of Japan...