Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leading the procession were red flags and the two banners which read: "On to London, the seat of our trouble" and "We demand bread for our people, justice for the miners." All were stoutly shod and all carried an extra pair of "boots." A rolling kitchen and a motor truck filled with supplies followed them, and there was an ambulance with well-trained male nurses to look after sore and swollen feet...
...Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...
...judge devised another vehicle of cooperation. If all iron and steel men would not truckle to Mr. Morgan's idea of a single steel corporation for the U. S., they might truck with him. In 1909 the judge organized the American Iron & Steel Institute where all rivals could meet on unrestricted terms to discuss common problems and follow similar programs, notably as to the costs and sale of steel. The judge was until his death its first and only president...
...boat. He himself was not annoyed by their yapping curiosity. When he stepped into the streets of Manhattan, he made no comments on the U. S. women, the tall buildings or the roaring subways but looked with intense interest at two large dappled-greys who were tugging a truck wagon along the cobbles of the waterfront avenue...
With her black setter Lord for company & guard, a Swedish camera man and two chauffeurs to drive her baggage truck, she had already last week driven her car 7,300 miles in 42 traveling days-from Constantinople, through Syria, Armenia and Persia, to Moscow. Europeans were amazed; Germans were proud besides...