Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such openly greedy talk, drove in panoplied procession from his palace to the dingy, stuccoed Parliament Building. There The Son of Heaven read the proclamation opening the 67th session of the Diet, which promptly recessed. When it finally gets to business at month's end, it will presumably swallow its medicine: Japan's all-time high in defense budgets, a monster achievement of the military clique which Sadao Araki heads...
...nobody came to disturb you, as though no one but yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...
...loud and clear manner the opinion that there is only one difference between the nature of study during the Freshman year at an American college and at a preparatory school, and that is that preparatory school students are better instructed. It is impossible of course, to swallow this remark whole, but the lesson of his exaggeration is none the less sound. That Harvard is no exception to the general rule is a fact which finds ample demonstration in the Deans' reports and in the annual emphasis placed upon the conferences between college and secondary school educators. The average Harvard undergraduate...
...which is attached to light tackle. The fish strikes at the red feather, catches the barb in its lip and with a reasonable amount of skill in preventing any slack line, the fish is finally landed. Unlike tuna fishing where bait is used and the fish is permitted to swallow the bait, in salmon fishing, the salmon merely strikes at the feather and the fisherman must set his hook on the strike...
...million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow 100-lb. fish whole...