Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers...
¶Biggest group housed in the 138-acre pink-&-white Olympic village (with eight running tracks, nine swimming pools, eight wrestling and four boxing arenas, two weight-lifting pavilions, one football field) were the 300 U. S. team-members. Next most numerous were 106 Japanese who arrived on the liner...
While the crew hissed and glared, the English agent fixed his Admiralty writ to the Artiglio II's mast. Later he transferred the writ to the ship's hold where the sacks of gold were stored.
While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's...