Word: morsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the heavy plank floor of the county courthouse, continued on to other pastures. Last week when the county clerk made one of his rare visits to the record room, he found most of the record books chewed to small shreds. One fat volume was eaten to the last morsel...
...above questionnaire, incidentally, contained one choice morsel about this Class 0' 1924. The average 1929 stock and bond loss of those incurring losses was $34,247, Yale men, by God, are men of substance. New Yorker
Daily, this alphabetical society has been seeking to confound its enemies with some new morsel of statistics and research. Most of them pass over out poor undergraduate domes. But the latest and most interesting item deserves immediate pursuit by every expert in research, and all the statistics which Harvard University can muster to its defence...
...were in tune with nature. Suddenly we saw ahead of us a couple. They were a plain, stubby couple, but they were arm in arm, and obviously not yet married. Approaching them, we listened for their remarks, with a benign curiosity. As they passed, the following morsel emanated from the lips of the man: "Now animals have fun. They..." The remainder of his speech was lost in the mists of evening...
...With China bound to her by the infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable of digesting such a large bite and was forced to disgorge. Inflamed by a frenzied economic nationalism, Japan apparently now considers herself able to swallow the morsel that stuck in her gullet fifteen years...