Word: lugging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
...fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team passed by. The hungry trainload confiscated its provender. Rescuers brought food and medicine by horse and hand sleighs. Finally the blizzards subsided. Three engines managed to break through the drifts and help the first three lug the typhoid victims to hospitals. Only one patient died...
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...City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said they should decline tips and make the company pay the difference, and more than the difference...
...months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much to lug with him. He shipped them all at Suez to follow him later. His best film, he said, was of 25 lions gamboling 20 ft. from his camera; his rarest trophy the golden-haired baboon. At Nairobi, capital of British East Africa, he sold 17 National Cash Registers...