Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he nearly died of overeating. At last he was removed to the controlled economy of an experimental cage and given poker chips to trade with. When he paid out a red chip, he got a bit of orange. A blue chip bought a peanut; a white chip a slice of banana. Green chips were worth a slice of bread (which Trader did not like); yellow chips were worthless...
Behind such conversation as this slice of banter recorded in a Pierre, South Dakota, pharmacy lies the reason that Harvard is today the most maligned and misconstrued institution of higher learning in the nation...
Phillips Brooks House received the biggest slice of Council coinage as $2,000 was given to the varied functions of the institution...
Wherever you go in Poland you find Communists in the key posts, working longer and harder hours than almost anybody else to make up in energy what they lack in numbers. In the large slice of Germany which the Potsdam Conference turned over to Polish administration, they have the mayors of the two biggest cities: Zaremba at Szczecin and Bronislaw Kupczynski at Wroclaw (once Breslau...
...That hasn't changed much," he answered. "There's still the bloody boss. With the old owners you at least knew where you stood. They were out to get the biggest slice they could, and to hell with us miners. But this Government can't seem to make up its mind and it interferes in the wrong places. You should see some of the red tape and regulations clerks that never saw a pit face can dream...