Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What's the Hurry? Last week, U.S. attorneys overcame another of Ellen Knauff's court appeals and, without bothering to wait for final congressional action, bundled her bag & baggage to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Knauff's attorney rushed an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson in Washington. Jackson, one of the three justices who dissented when the Supreme Court tossed out Mrs. Knauff's first appeal, looked at the clock and dictated an eleventh-hour hairbreadth reprieve for the woman. "Bundling this woman onto an airplane to get her out of this country within...
Both male & female babies slough off many different types of cells into the amnion ("bag of waters") in which they are carried. After the seventh month, a girl baby sloughs off distinctive cells like those from the genitalia of an adult woman. By puncturing the bag of waters late in pregnancy, draining off a little fluid, and staining the cells, the sex of 25 babies was foretold with accuracy at the University of Brussels' Laboratory for Experimental Gynecology...
...third event reported yesterday morning was the theft of a set of Slazeager, Bobby Locke golf clubs in a canvas bag, stolen from an auto parked near Lowell House. The owner of the car was graduate student Alexander Hood. He valued...
When the television boom began three years ago, scores of hopeful businessmen, equipped with little more than a bag of tools, a shoestring of capital and boundless hopes, rushed in to make sets. For many, wiped out by stiffening competition, the hopes were short-lived...
Headstrong Men. Many a traveler for many a century, says Author O'Faolain, has savagely refused to accept the fact that the cities of Italy "are not museums." Burgeoning with the exuberance that makes every Italian "a great, bursting bag of life," these cities have from time immemorial massacred their own beauties, thrown out long sprays of indiscriminate architectural splendor and ugliness-"gems set in pig-iron...