Word: pouches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward J. Pinc (alias Edward Bodery), 32, 6 ft. 2 in., 325 lb., brown hair, with two hands clasped over a heart tattooed on his left forearm, for the theft of U. S. mail pouch containing $16,500 in currency last March at Melrose Park, Ill. He wears a no. 12 shoe, smokes cigars continuously...
...escapists looked like strange creatures from the marine underworld. To the face of each was attached one of the new Momsen-Tibbals "lungs"-a mask like device with nose-clip, mouthpiece and two flexible tubes to a pouch worn on the chest. The pouch contains soda-lime, to absorb exhaled carbon dioxide, and compressed oxygen for inhalation. Over the head fits a caplike helmet with waterproof goggles...
...pointed leaves and graceful translucent green stems. Bladderwort carries little traps at the ends of stems. Really they are the size of pin heads. Enlarged they are three to four inches in diameter. When an animalcule touches the bladder (utricle) a flap snaps upwards; the beastie slips into the pouch; the trap springs shut...
...marsupial is an animal with a pouch for carrying young-opossum, kangaroo, wombat...
...said Mrs. Coolidge, "I didn't mean they came by special pouch." "You implied it," said the President...