Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the Commission firmly turned its course away from Prohibition, the Wet and Dry letter-writers of the land turned eagerly toward it. At the Commission's offices at the Department of Justice arrived sack after sack of mail, bursting with suggestions as to how the Commission could best treat this subject...
...Leviathan on its next westward crossing of the Atlantic will experiment with an analogous device to pick up and despatch mail to shore. On a new platform above the poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...
...Crimson batters tallied five runs in their half of the initial frame. Nugent walked, McGrath flied out, and Donaghy singled, sending the diminutive lead-off man to third. The Harvard captain stole to the key-stone sack just before Ticknor was handed a free pass to first. Whitney then banged out a safety, scoring Nugent. The next play produced two more runs. Gilligan poked a grounder at pitcher White whose throw home to cut off Donaghy went wide of its mark, letting in the third baseman and Ticknor, while Gilligan scampered to the hot corner. He subsequently stole home when...
Early in the first part of the first inning in which the CRIMSON nine did some tremendous scoring the Lampooners already resorted to ungentlemanly tactics, attempting to prevent several CRIMSON men from reaching the initial sack...
...Worst of the lot was the private sanitarium which he entered docilely enough, till he noticed the barred windows and thug-attendants. He thereupon tried to leave, but his board, $40 a week "and extras," was too valuable to the "doctor." Lashed to an iron cot in the canvas sack that was a straitjacket, North 3-1 struggled in vain to escape; and, doped as he was, he did not then feel the cords cutting through flesh to the bone of his arms, his ankles, the back of his neck. Severe infection set in. North 3-1 survived...