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Word: basketfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this guy E. W. A. K.? What a fool he must be." The wastebasket moved a trifle. "These guys sure do bawl me out." Another letter capped the debris in the basket. The telephone rang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...recovering from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basket Weaver Flappers Bobbed Their Locks But Used Them to Make Rope--Private Life of Early Arizonian Revealed | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...remains were generally in such a good state of preservation that sand could be found in the lungs of petrified Indians. Lung disease was disclosed similar to that disease so common among the inhabitants of dusty cities. Tuberculosis germs were furthermore detected and it is supposed that the Basket Maker tribe fought against a high death rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basket Weaver Flappers Bobbed Their Locks But Used Them to Make Rope--Private Life of Early Arizonian Revealed | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...Basket Maker flappers had bobbed hair, but they seem to have preserved their shown tresses because plenty of hair has been found in mummified baskets. Moreover, they made some use of it, weaving it into rope. The women did most of the basket making for which the tribe is famous. There was no clay pottery among them and they seem to have employed baskets for every conceivable domestic purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basket Weaver Flappers Bobbed Their Locks But Used Them to Make Rope--Private Life of Early Arizonian Revealed | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

Groceries. President H. E. Hovey of the Market Basket Corp., which operates 107 grocery stores in central New York and Pennsylvania, announced the forthcoming merger of his company with the National Economy Stores of Auburn, which operates 84 groceries and 14 meat markets in the same territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: More Mergers: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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