Word: sacksful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The other day interested passers by might have been mildly surprised to see a huge van pull up and stop in front of the Lowell House west gate. Three rather surly looking, individuals in coveralls disembarked, opened up the rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall...
Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating...
"Roosevelt has made some mistakes and he will undoubtedly make more. But in his own words he is like a quarter back on the football team who has to get the ball down the field in some way or other, whether it be over, under, around, or through the opponents...
These inauspicious accidents did not daunt the 200 officers and 324 enlisted men who had been sworn in on their tarmacs for duty with the Post Office Department. The mail did go through, in 148 ships whose machine guns and bomb-racks had been yanked out so they could carry...
So while Legion delegates were parading down Michigan Avenue last week, and upsetting trucks to get ice for their beer, dropping paper sacks of water out of upper-story windows, happily messing up Chicago's hotels, their working committees worked out a program of which the essence was conservatism...