Word: bagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York) offered a 455-page volume in which these mutations in the life of the French Quarter were painstakingly recorded, together with a mass of miscellaneous information and legend on the city as a whole that gave The French Quarter some-thing of the air of an historical grab-bag...
...moneyed uncle in Boston paid Sculptor Lovet-Lorski's passage to the U. S., of which he became a citizen in 1925. With a real talent for sculpture and a full bag of social tricks, "Lorochka" had no trouble in soon making a place for himself, has not lacked money, friends or customers...
...overwhelming nomination. Nominee Landon's first campaign tour had been accompanied by a Republican slump. Meanwhile John Hamilton and Frank Knox, both abler orators than the nominee, had been drumming into the country's head the idea that Republicans planned to throw out the New Deal bag & baggage, the baby with the bath. Also meanwhile, Franklin Roosevelt, resting the New Deal's case on its popular benefits, its aspirations and the undeniable fact of Recovery, was proceeding with a "non-political" campaign which, as Lacy Haynes' and Roy Roberts' Kansas City Star conceded...
Pulled by a snorting Deere tractor, the machine moved back & forth at 3 m.p.h. along the 300-yd. rows of plants. Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...
...gunners were gratified to learn that this year Canadian gunners, though allowed two months to shoot the birds which breed in their country, are limited to a daily bag of twelve ducks, five geese or brant...