Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take the case of national bag limits on migratory birds. There is a nation-wide fight for reductions in these . . . the biggest flight of wild ducks through the Mississippi Valley that we had seen in autumn for 20 years. This year we again had a deluge of ducks...
...like carrying a mail bag. Why else should I do it for 39 years? You put a letter in a boy's box, and wonder what it is. You can tell, sometimes, when you see the same writing turn up about once in so often. Here's a check, and here's a dance invitation, and here's something that is as welcome as a check. It looks like a woman's writing, too. You feel as if you get to know people, and are glad when they get good news, and sorry when...
...Bickle, British Columbia, one Dave Irons was walking up a trail with a bag of salt. Every week he came to this lonely patch of hill-furze and spikeberry, the loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair...
...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
...little petition only a few months old. But I grew fast-now I am 5 ft. tall and have to be tied up in a bag. I am a very important petition-17,226 pages constitute my physique; within me are the signatures of 437,163 Illinois voters and all kinds of notary public seals...