Word: racks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
Sirs: Last Saturday night, I happened to be in the Wardell apartment hotel (one of the most exclusive apartment hotels in this city), where I was agreeably surprised to note five copies of TIME in the letter rack. My remark to the clerk on the popularity of the publication brought forth this reply: "Yes, sir; about half the people in this hotel read TIME-have you ever read it?" OWEN MACCAFFERTY Detroit, Mich...
...crosses the Andes reaching an elevation, near the station of Ticlio, of 15,665 feet. On a branch from this station of Ticlio to a mining camp (Moroco-cha), it scales even higher, or 15,865 feet above the sea. And this is all standard-gauge railroad with no rack and pinion. Now where is that puny little point in Colorado? . . . A. L. CONWELL...
Retiring from the prize ring, he bought a health farm in Summit, N. J. The farm went to rack and ruin while Mr. Welsh went...
...South is likely to bring to bear upon the Federal Government the growing pains of economic regeneration. In none of these fields is the government now active. In all of them, country-wide opinion needs little more than crystallization. One can guess that new fevers will in reasonable time rack the now inert parties...