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Word: bag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greens and called them the worst he'd seen in any U.S. Open. As he dug into a clubhouse sundae before the first round, he told a newsman: "If I had another $100,000 I'd give my irons away; I'd stuff that golf bag over the caddie's head-got no urge to play golf any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hard Luck Sammy | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Bite. In Indianapolis, Landlady Esther Lemons lispingly complained to police that a tenant had moved out with bag, baggage and a set of teeth (lowers) that she had been generous enough to lend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Harwood, near Regent's Park, one of London's few refrigerators (about one British family in 35 owns one) chose this crucial moment to spring a leak. To save their Pekingese bitch, Anna, from asphyxiation, the Harwoods hung her out of the window in a string bag. Whether Anna survived the treatment without hysterics was not reported, but as the weekend approached with cooling thunderstorms, the ever-helpful Evening Standard had a final word of advice for other dog lovers. "Dog hysteria," pronounced the Standard, "has its root in digestive troubles, but dogs are more prone to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Is So Rare | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Tolstoy, Wagner, Cervantes, Schopenhauer, Freud); the others are likely to interest only a specializing minority. But there is no basic difference in Essayist Mann's approach to any one of them-and it is this constancy that unites them in one volume like assorted vegetables in one string bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Mountains | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Died. Col. William J. L. Lyster, 77, retired U.S. Army doctor, inventor (1916) of the "Lyster Bag," a large, rubberized, udder-like canvas container from which soldiers in both World Wars drew thoroughly purified, highly unpalatable water; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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