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Word: sacksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If you are a 22-year-old girl built like a young Percheron (175 lbs.), so strong that your father, the county jailer, calls you his "handyman" and says you can handle the women prisoners "like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Always interesting to aeronauts, scoop-up-&-drop mail service attracted the fancy of the 75th Congress, which directed the Post Office to call for last week's bids. Most popular scooping arrangement is a grapple hook dangling from the plane by a rope to catch another rope (with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoop-Up Service | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

After holding the Bruins scoreless for 13 frames, Healey allowed Brokaw a single with two men out. Hinckley was purposely passed and pitcher Devaney filled the sacks when Dick Grondahl bobbled his grounder. Harkins hit safely into short left, and the damage was done.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN EDGES NINE IN 14 INNINGS, 1-0 | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

In the fifth Johnson again proved a thorn in Healey's side as he opened the stanza with a single and then waltzed around the sacks on a series of ludicrous boners. After getting on first, he stole second, and then tantalized Healey who threw to second to try to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BLANKED BY BIG RED TEAM AT ITHACA 3 TO 0 | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

In the bomb dropping event, two pound sacks of flour will be dropped over the side at a target from an altitude of 500 feet from level flight.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club To Participate In Intercollegiate Air Meet | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

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