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Word: sacksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after 9 o'clock that morning a man in a white apron rolled a pushcart filled with gunny sacks up to the loading platform of a Rubel plant in the Bay Ridge district of Brooklyn. He pushed away an inquisitive child who poked among his sacks, strolled across the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

The one weak link in any armored car service is the 15 seconds between the opening of the car door, to let out the armed guard and a cash carrier at a pick-up point, and the closing and locking of that door from the inside by the driver. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Record Haul | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Miss Kessinger, who doubted Professor Fairhall's results, made some little sacks of leaded silk. Into each sack she tied a rat and kept it there with only its head exposed for an hour a day. At first she perceived no changes. Then rapidly the rats' skins became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leaded Silk | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Yale's remaining marker came in the eighth. It looked as if it was Harvard's day by long odds, and Captain Loughlin began to ease up from the pitcher's box. He passed Williamson, Curtin singled, and Dugan filled the sacks when Charley Nevin had trouble with a grounder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS OVER YALE BEHIND CAPTAIN LOUGHLIN | 6/21/1934 | See Source »

Meantime in Washington last week it became clear that the rolling barrage of protest against the bill to control stock and exchanges was beginning to tell. For the first time since the bristling measure was introduced last February, Congressional comment was offered without the tired phrase, "with teeth in it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Without Teeth? | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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