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Word: bagfulls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead, he went to all those gentlemen whose recommendations would have weight and asked them to back him as second choice. When Mr. Frankfurter declined the post. Mr. Biggs popped into the arena with the largest bagful of No. 2 endorsements, and got the job.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Biggs Out | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

As President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico returned to the capital from a brief tour of northern and central States, the Government announced that Primate Diaz, when arrested, had a bagful of small coins he had collected for administering confirmation to children at 75 centavos (21?) each outside his district. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Plenty of Priests | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

Nestled close against the broad steel beams of the Second Avenue Elevated at Pearl Street, is the dingy Victorian building of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. There one-fourth of all the world's sugar changes hands and there, last week, a frantic little group of sugar traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sugar Squeeze | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

A major catastrophe always seems to follow Japan's acquisition of new land. After the Sino-Japanese War, which added Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the puppet Kingdom of Korea to the Empire of the Rising Sun, the earthquake of 1896 killed 27,102. After the Russo-Japanese War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Juggernaut of Air | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Masefield's Works. Rough sea stories-in-verse like Dauber, long homely narratives such as The Everlasting Mercy and exciting ones like Right Royal and Reynard the Fox, shorter, more spiritual pieces such as The Passing Strange, these with a bagful of sonnets more notable for content than form comprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Laureate Masefield | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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