Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Union Bag...
...second time that day Gridley smiled sardonically. He was thinking about the new tunnel he had found, the one that led to squash court 9 in Lowell House. He was still smiling when he loaded the 1516 New Testament of Erasmus with Holbein capitals into a Coop laundry bag and trudged back to his room...
scribble notes on them, and put them in a bag behind his desk. Later he would take them out and put them between the pages of books which lay in piles around the room. "Once I remember he told me he had misplaced a book," Finley said. "Sometimes I wondered how he managed to find anything...
Even as Phil Graham was putting together his new syndicate, Marshall Field organized an even bigger one. Last fall he bought out Chicago's Publishers Syndicate, a kit bag of comic strips, features, medical advice, the Gallup poll and assorted odds and ends, with an extensive clientele of 1,786 daily and weekly newspapers. Combined with Field's own Sun-Times-Daily News syndicate, which peddles to 73 papers such wares as Ann Landers. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Steve Canyon, and the dispatches of the News's foreign correspondents, the new syndicate made Graham's Post-Times...
...merger case. About the only strong opposition to the move could come from the competitive New York Central, which not so long ago had designs on the B. & O. itself and complained that a C. & O.-B. & O. hookup would leave the Central "holding the bag out on a limb." (The Central started talking merger with the Pennsylvania in earnest only after the C. & O. and B. & O. refused to consider a threeway tie with the Central...