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Word: bagging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that." The punctual limousine appeared, started toward White Pine Camp.... Suddenly, Presidential Chauffeur Robinson jammed on his brakes. From the car leapt Richard Jervis of the U. S. Secret Service. He shouted: "Dr. Coupal! Dr. COUPAL! The President wants you. Hurry!" Presidential Physician James F. Coupal seized his medicine bag, leapt from his car, rushed forward. Secret service men, newspaper correspondents leapt from various units of the motor cavalcade. In a few, simple words, the President asked Dr. Coupal to stop at Saranac Lake and get him a new pair of fishing boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: At White Pine Camp- Sep. 6, 1926 | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

...asked to write opinions on points of law that would aforetime have been left to the bartender. Meanwhile at Saratoga Dempsey, growing rapidly browner and harder, continued to train, sometimes slipping off in the afternoon to see the horses run. Forty miles away, at Gloversville, Tunney pounded the bag or jogged over the hills. One day Louis Fink, Tunney's manager, slipped over to Dempsey's camp and watched the champion deal briskly with his four sparring partners- Robert Delfino, South American heavyweight, James Saxon, middleweight, James Brown, Negro middle-weight from Panama, Philip Weisberg, heavyweight from Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Battle | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Quizzical folk wondered what would be the condition of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen 19 years hence. It was 19 years ago that Walter Wellman attempted to reach the North Pole in a balloon. He was forced back to Spitzbergen, but tried again in 1909, when his bag exploded. In 1910 he set off to float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobile v. Ellsworth | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Metropolitan Open Golf Tournament, after beginning the final round three strokes behind small swart MacDonald Smith , small swart Gene Sarazen regained the three strokes and three more, seemed to have the crown in the bottom of his immense bag. Then, on the last two holes, came a three-putt green and a fumbled approach, and he and Smith were tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Smote | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones had two to win. His first putt missed. Turnesa was frozen now. If someone yelled, if a lightning bolt fell, if a caddy dropped a bag, Jones might. . . . But already the second putt had clinked into the cup. Jones's score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: U.S. Open | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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