Word: junking
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...feeling of the man in the desert who sees the longed-for oasis fade into a mirage is very similar to that of the man who sees the patient labor of days turned into so much junk by an unexpected manifestation of the hidden forces of nature. Pennock met all these obstacles in the only way in which they can be successfully met: with a smile. He never acknowledged difficulties and troubles. In this way he surmounted them one by one till the first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time...
...tonight. When a class barbecues or country fairs or junkets, there is no hope. It is on the downward corkscrew path to the cold world. What do you mean--junket? It is vaguely nutritive, indefinably edible in sound. Possibly one eats or drinks junk; possibly, one just buys it. Who knows? Junket and be merry, oh Seniors, for tomorrow you may graduate...
Owing to Viceroy Alexeof's decree that no foreign newspaper correspondents should be allowed within the city limits, Mr. Emerson, although obtaining numerous photographs of siege operations, was finally expelled from Port Arthur; and after some time on a Chinese junk, was eventually captured by the Japanese blockading fleet. It was from the Japanese ranks that he obtained his vivid photographs of the bloody assault on "203-Metre Hill." On his refusal, however, to disclose to General Nogi his knowledge of the Russian fortifications, the lecturer was imprisoned for some time at the Japanese naval base at Sasebo, where...
...Junk '07, substitute guard, prepared at the Wyoming Seminary. He is 22 years old, 6 feet 2 1-2 inches in height, and weighs 214 pounds...
Three tons of old Lampoons were sold yesterday to a junk dealer at three-quarters of a cent a pound...