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Word: truckful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well how much of his spectacular rise he can credit to himself, how much to pure luck, how much to the peculiarities of the flying-trapeze world he works in. He fully expects to wake up one of these days and find himself in San Diego again, driving a truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...made off with the only girls who interested him. When at last he got a girl of his own, he fell as much in love with her secure family life as with her. Hoping to get married, he threw over medicine and took a job driving an oil truck. He lost direction again when he lost the girl; and, with nothing better to do, began putting himself through the University of California by waiting on table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...armored truck delivered the cash shortly before 11 o'clock, and as soon as the messengers left the premises, the holdup men swung into action...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Stick-up Cleans Coop | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

More than one robust undergrad has weathered a stay at Conway or Stowe tossing in a sleeping bag in the back of a truck with nothing for sustinence but the will to live and a case of Three Feathers. By this method a student can spend a holiday in the snow for less than half the price of the cheapest lodging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardy Ski Enthusiasts Can Curtail Vacation Expenses | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...Easy. Best way to spread airborne infection in a laboratory, the researchers found, is "an all-glass, direct-spray peripheral air-jet instrument," much like a perfume atomizer. In wartime, the same technique might be applied by airplanes spraying disease as they now spray insecticides over truck farms. The raw materials of bacteriological warfare are easy to stockpile, and it is not really necessary to kill wholesale. Causing civilian panic should be fairly simple and adequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Germs for World War III? | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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