Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About half way through, the cat climbs out of the bag. The woman of mystery is Mary Ogden herself, miraculously rejuvenated by Steinach, medical genius of Vienna...
...force of the future will be the postage stamp. The government has declared in connection with the recent issue of stamps: "The educational influence of distributing pictures of Americans and of places in America will be enormous". American History will be taught even to the mail-man if his bag is only full enough. To compromise with the enemy, colleges might give courses on obsolete issues and postal ethics. A college degree for stamp collectors...
...course, this invention and the wireless phone will revolutionize educational methods. Everyone will own a complete library in his field and will carry it about with him in a Boston bag. Strips of reading will be catalogued by number, like phonograph records, and assignments will be made by number and by the foot. The lecture-room will naturally fall into the limbo of the past as lectures, each at a different wavelength, are broadcasted from the professor's study to students in outlying cities within a specified radius. Examinations, however, will flourish no less hardily, for the otherwise untrammeled absentees...
When a man slips out of a store with something picked up from the counter, he is called a sneak thief. For the man who slips away from the Reading Room with a Library book in his pocket or his bag, or concealed among his own books, we may drop the "thief" if we like, because in most cases he means to return the book, and in some cases does so, but he is no less a sneak, for he does in an underhand way and to secure a mean advantage for himself, what he cannot do openly and with...
Announcement has also been made by the Department that the old bowling alley area at Hemenway Gymnasium has been converted into four handball couris, and a backstop will be erected between them and the punch-bag platform. These new courts will be closed for the rest of the week to permit their painting, so that they may have better ilumination...