Word: tote
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of writing dialect: "And Valivostop! Dat's whar us stopped at to load on some coal. Dey got some drinkin' licker made out'n rice and bramboo and stuff named vockster. And drunk you? I tuck jest two drinks and dey had to tote me on de ship in a sack...
...Harvard uniform, in addition to its change of trimmings is somewhat lighter than the outfit of last year. This fall the well-dressed grid star will tote around 13 pounds 5 ounces of equipment on his person. This poundage is made up from the following items: Head guard, jersey, shoulder pads, hip and kidney pads, pants, stockings, shoes, and underclothing...
...Average college student, there is something strangely childish about the War-debt controversies. The stupidity of the Johnson Bill, forbidding Americans to lend money to nations that have defaulted on their obligations tote United State, is at once apparent to the disinterested observer. The recent decision of the State Department that if England continues to make only taken payments, who must be included among the defaulters, means precisely that all loans to Great Britain whether national or private are a crime against the Federal Government...
When they return to the U. S. the picture-on-the-pants will not be in its present location. The proud Explorers Club last week concluded that mortgages on their new eight-story building were too heavy to tote through Depression. The late James Bishop Ford, vice president of the U. S. Rubber Co., who assembled most of the money to begin construction of the clubhouse, died aged 84 (TIME, April 9, 1928) without arranging for funds to complete it. The clubhouse carries a $225,000 6% first mortgage which must be repaid May 24, 1933. A second mortgage...
...binoculars who made notes on the margins of their form charts. By 11 a.m. the bookmakers were on their platforms shouting odds soon to be changed: "Fifty to one against the field except Easter Hero!" All morning there were long lines of bettors at the windows of the new "tote" (totalizator) machines...