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Word: sacksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As usual Captain Ulysses Lupien will be on the initial sacks. To date the hard-hitting captain has gone hitless in four games, but nobody is worried over a permanent slump for Lupe who led the nine at bat last season.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtiss to Oppose Quakers on Enemy Mound Today | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

One day in 1888, a wistful little cur with a happy wag to his tail wandered into the Albany, N. Y. post office and made himself at home. Amused clerks promptly adopted him, named him Owney, fed him from their own lunches, let him sleep on mail sacks. Feeling safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Owney Travels Again | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

An artist much favored by the New Deal is bullnecked Reginald Marsh, Yale graduate, Associate of the National Academy of Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Assistant Clerk | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Some 48 hours after Policeman Kelly's stabbing, Sergeant Harry Fairbanks nodded in the Tallahassee police station. A gun in his ribs roused him. He saw "two short men and two stout men" wearing flour sacks over their heads a la Ku Klux Klan. Ordered to the county jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Two for Florida | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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