Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
...circus of bent-wire figures which could gallop round a ring, jump through hoops, dance. This success made him give up his none too successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found no one at the station but Sculptor Calder with a pair of pliers in his pocket, a roll of wire over his shoulder...
...Yard fire yesterday, the assembled crowd watched with rapt attention the machinations of the Cambridge Fire Department with their shiny new truck...
...arrival in the front of Hollis the new truck was given the place of honor and the all-in-one-piece ladder was run up with eclat but unfortunately it was long by about 20 feet and wrapped itself around the roof. A shorter, old fashioned ladder did the trick, but as the fireman who stands on the back platform said, the new one "shore looks purity up there...
With the Spanish Whites entered truck loads of bread. Munching Málagans were soon telling between mouthfuls how numbers of Spaniards have been saved fror pistol squads by the boldness of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bainbridge Norton of Memphis, Tenn...