Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes I board a ship at 6 in the morning and get her moored as late as 10 at night. In the interval there may be long hours waiting for the tide to bring in more water. I spend such hours reading . . . Usually I carry TIME in my shoulder bag, and it makes it easy, not only for myself, but also for the captains of ships I navigate, to pass the time. Often ship captains and I have friendly arguments over TIME stories...
...Malenkov. It looks as though Hitler and Stalin were right about the decadence of democracy. With the baseball opener down the drain, the rest shouldn't take long. Armed services appropriations and foreign aid bills will lie forgotten on the desk, or perhaps in the bottom of a golf bag. Cheer up, Kremlin. It looks like easy sailing from...
...Ells was notifying Cambridge Police, Thomas H. Stearns '53 came out of the photo darkroom. Stearns, unaware of what had happened, discovered that his camera and bag had been stolen. The janitor of the building next door found the camera in the parking lot. It was in good condition...
...long as the Undergraduate Schools Committee operated on pre-college students who already had Harvard on their minds, it worked easily and well. But, with lackadaisical alumni groups in some areas of the country, the Committee has found itself holding the entire Harvard publicity bag. For this it is badly understaffed. In fact, the exiting Schools Committee chairman has called enlisting capable representatives the Committee's most pressing problem...
...well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...