Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebellious typewriters, misspelled words, incomplete forms, to say nothing of the many interruption for reasons which I have only hinted at earlier in this column. Despite all this, however, when the day's work is done, you will find--on the whole--that the Yeoman goes back to his sack with a smile of satisfaction. He has met his typewriter and he has subdued...
Last July, when the steaming heat lay stifling across northeast India, a perky, pint-sized, hickory-tough U.S. Army officer slung a sack of dollar watches over his shoulder and set out on foot through one of the world's wildest jungles. He was armed only with a stout Kentucky hunting knife. His escort was a file of stocky, semicivilized native bearers...
...Potential Pounds. The Wire Recorder weighs only 10 lb. (minus the amplifier and tubes) and, when electric pow er lines are not available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...
Sain, a left-handed who toiled for Casey Stengel's Braves last year, will probably be on the mound. His receiver will be Fred Naumetz, co-captain of the Boston College football team last fall. Buddy Gremp, who guarded the initial sack for the Braves last year, is Amherst's first baseman...
...left side of the A team infield is manned by veterans: Jim Gallagher is at third, with Jay Gleason, utility infielder in 1942, at short Jack Forte, Freshman brother of the Crimson football captain, is the current occupant of the keystone sack. A smooth fielder the short stocky Yearling has a good arm. "Red" Wilcox, a pitcher last year, is now at first base...