Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apathy for schussing and slaloming is still no reason to avoid the winter sports scene. New England resort moguls have reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out a startling variety of ways to turn a blanket of snow into commercial...
Trotting horse races take place Sunday afternoons at Derby and Lanconia, New Hampshire. Keeping the pacers upright on the bare ice demands strong hands and steady nerves from the drivers. At the finish line a blanket, a ribbon, or even a shiny new bag of oats awaits the winning horse...
...atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already in the bag...
...happiest people in the land were the people with market baskets. As they went to the stores this week, retail prices were spotty, but some were down: bread, down 1? a loaf; bacon, down 10? a pound, flour, down 16? to 17? a 25-lb. bag. These were only pennies, but the clink of falling pennies was music in housewives' ears...
Athletic Director Bingham cant't afford to wait too wait too long. Spring practice generally starts around March 15 and applicants for the job know it. They have been cramming the H.A.A. mail bag. The place de resistance was a sincerely-penned communique from the wife of a mid-western high school coach. She was convinced her man was the logical choice to lead Harvard out of the football wilderness. "This is between you and I, Mr. Bingham," she said in her letter, "as my husband yet knows nothing about my writing...