Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onto the stage of Chicago's Medinah Temple, bag-jowled, loud-mouthed William Hale Thompson, thrice Mayor of Chicago and ready to try once more at 69, last week threw his ten-gallon campaign sombrero while friends yowled...
...whip of war, the life of China began to flee west ward soon after the first shots were fired at Peking 18 months ago. Students, long the spark plugs of China's national life, were among the first to go. Whole universities, libraries and laboratories moved bag & baggage, hundreds of miles, to regions which before the war had never seen books or schools. Several institutions were set up in the new capital Chungking (''Heavenly Residence"), others went to Chengtu, Sian, Changsha and far-off Kunming, capital of Szechwan Province...
...shock cannot be easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine that they had devised a new, safer method for depriving the brain of oxygen. They simply attached a five-quart breathing bag filled with pure oxygen to the patient's face, gradually ran out the oxygen and substituted nitrogen. The patient went into convulsions, but when the physicians thought the symptoms had reached a crucial point, they reintroduced pure oxygen into the mask. Five schizophrenic patients have received nitrogen treatment, said...
...room in an old brownstone mansion off Manhattan's Park Avenue. Unforewarned, an old-line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
This is going to be a real Photographic Christmas. Santa's bag will contain Cameras, Movie Projectors, Enlargers, Exposure Meters and hundreds of other items that now go to make that delightful and popular hobby, Photography, more enjoyable...