Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year, while Cabot, last year...
...trunk-line agreement has been ratified in New York, and deposits have been made with Commissioner Fink as a guarantee for the carrying...
...disagreement between the trunk railroad lines still continues...
...trunk-line conference of railroad officials was held yesterday in New York, and a plan of settlement of the railroad war discussed...
...railroad war between the trunk lines still continues, without any prospect of immediate settlement...