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Word: gullets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Alexandria. History's magnificent madman, Alexander of Macedonia, some 2253 years ago engaged in a classically long and hard drinking bout. After many days the quantity of iced, fermented honey that passed down his gullet weakened him, killed him. Expiring in Babylon, a stopping-off point on his insane meandering path about the earth, he left no trace of his tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...work, the need of a solution becomes over more obvious. With the true courage born of despair, Mr. Lindsey has sought to attain in a single bound to a peak which it will doubtless require several generations of laborious effort to reach with any degree of security. Unfortunately, the gullet of the general public is of conservative dimensions, and has never yet been known to swallow reform in large and radical chunks. And for all Mr. Lindsey's cramming, it probably never will. There will unquestionably come a time when youth will be served, but Mr. Lindsey must bide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PREFACE TO MORALS | 4/18/1930 | See Source »

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