Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaporings from a Bolshevik gas bag...
...them triples, and Samuels made a damaging error of judgment in right field which hurt the Harvard cause. The visitors added what proved to be the winning run in the fifth on a hit, two stolen bases caused by Puffer's failure to hold the runner close to the bag, and an error by Mann...
This makes the whole business a merry game, like the principle of the grab bag reversed. You throw money in and you haven't the slightest idea where it's coming out. If any further inducement is necessary to move the class of 1927 to whole-hearted, open handed giving, the fact that publicity will be accorded benevolence through a possible use of moving pictures should be particularly compelling...
Ballooning is an ancient sport which dates back to 1784, when the hot air bag invented by the Montgolfier brothers made its first man-carrying flight from the gardens of the Tuileries in the presence of Louis XVI of France and of Benjamin Franklin. When Franklin, foremost scientist of the day, was asked what use the balloon was, he cautiously countered: "Of what use is a newborn infant?" And the balloon has indeed been the precursor of many mighty dirigibles. Per se its utility is small. Kite balloons, a variant ol the spherical balloons used for sporting purposes, are useful...
...effect, the Lausanne Settlement turned Europe bag and baggage out of Turkey instead of turning Turkey bag and baggage out of Europe. It signified the complete shipwreck of Lloyd George's five years' nursing of Greek ambitions. Flouting the conservative policy of seven decades, it exposed Turkey to intrigue and direct military pressure from Britain's perennial foe, Russia. It excluded France, Italy and Great Britain from exploitation of the spoils of war. It practically abandoned all pretence on the part of the Great Powers to protect the Christians in Turkey, cardinal point of Gladstone...