Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
...California's Governor Earl Warren was back at his desk in Sacramento after a brief vacation in Williams, Calif. In a couple of hours, he had managed to bag the two-bird limit of pheasant, and pose for a hearty sportsman picture...
...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
Many were experienced huntsmen, but the high price of meat had also attracted fledglings to the field. When the season ended, the bag was the biggest in Colorado's history: 68,000 mule deer, 12,000 elk, 99 bears - along with countless cattle, horses and sheep, 17 dead and 13 wounded hunters...
...including no tutorial at all, which was a combination that the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy did not consider cricket, since the requirement for honors is 16 courses plus a thesis. When the Economics Department found this out, it decided to leave the honors candidates holding the bag--which contained 16 courses and a thesis--and went about spending its money on better things, than tutorial...