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...ball over any other way.' McGregor won the first set, 13-11, then romped through two more, 6-3, 6-4, for the match. Since Sedgman had walloped an unsteady Tom Brown in an earlier match, the Australians, needing three-of-five to win, could just about crate up the old cup for shipment home. But the Aussies' Captain Hopman was not yet jubilant. "I want to see us get that third point," said Harry...
...from an East Coast Western Union manager to the syndicate: "I believe I could develop some business for you here and in surrounding towns. Just what kind of a proposition do you offer?" Another manager was so grateful for his commission on bets that he offered to send a crate of cantaloupes to the bookies...
...worth that much it was Walsing Winning Trick of Edgerstoune. Mrs. Winant showed him three more times in England, where he won two best-in-shows, then took him home to the U.S. Last week, after catching an hour nap in a crate in Madison Square Garden's basement, 3½-year-old Trick perked up for the final of the Westminster Kennel Club. Most of his five rivals, survivors of more than 2,500 carefully sifted pooches, were considerably more formidable in size and mien. Finalist Judge George H. Hartman moved from the sleek pointer (best...
Wrong Foot. Near McAlester, Okla., Sid M. Puryear, employee at the naval ammunition depot, got a bad bruise when a crate containing 1,900 pairs of safety shoes fell on his foot...
...Manhattan apartment early one morning last week, Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy awoke with a start. As he flipped a bedside switch, soft indirect light spread over walls made of egg-crate fiber and over a group of improbable furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...