Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unexpected happened. Secretary Mellon announced that the Government would offer no securities for sale. It had enough money in pocket and would simply pay off the debts that fell due and not create any new ones...
These nobly befuddled Poles, having continued their celebration and refused to be ejected for almost a month, alleged with great presence of mind last week that their sortie had been provoked by a lone Lithuanian private, who had wandered into Poland and been found with dumdum bullets in his pocket...
...TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS). Last week the candidates filed their individual expenses (the campaign committees had two weeks longer in which to file their schedules). In the race for the Senate, William S. Vare (Wet), the successful candidate in the primary, spent $71,435.80 out of his own pocket, Governor Pinchot who ran third spent $43,767.31 of his money, and Senator Pepper who ran second depleted his pocket only...
...emergency was met. The supervising nurse rushed pocket flashlights to the operating room; by their feeble and uncertain light Dr. Schillinger finished his operation. The baby lived. But a question has been raised which the nurses, doctors, internes of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital began to ask each other: "Should not our hospital, and every hospital, have its own emergency lighting system...
...brief introduction. "I do not want to bore you," he protested, "with any personal history of myself. ... I do not think any person's personality is as interesting as his job.?? ... I will say I came out of the War very nearly ruined in health and pocket...