Word: bag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five in each string, were sent up periodically from San Antonio, Tex. to heights of 92,000 ft.(about 17½ miles). When the weakest balloon in the string burst, due to the thinning outside air, the rate of ascent of the other four was checked. When the second bag blew up, the remaining ones hovered practically stationary until a clockwork device released a red parachute and dropped a self-charging electroscope which had been recording cosmic ray intensity all the while. Four of the five electroscopes were recovered, sent to Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...
Arriving back at his headquarters in Manhattan last week, the least ambitious of all third-party candidates announced that the election was "in the bag." not for himself but for Franklin D. Roosevelt. By this piece of intellectual honesty Socialist Norman Thomas made a fool both of himself and of his opponents...
Even if it were true that 'overshooting' has made the birds so much more difficult to approach, then, so far from spoiling the sport, I contend that it enhances it, for, after all, it is difficulties overcome, far more than the actual bag brought home, that makes wildfowling what...
...state rally of his National Union for Social Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia's Broad Street to impress convening Democrats with his slogan...
With the backing of the undergraduates this week, they can bag the Tiger next Saturday. Experience and the realization that they can go-to-town against a strong team, plus additional practice, will turn the tables...