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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization of higher education". But if most innovations have borne this tag, such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory scholasticism may well be forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BUDDING PLANT | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

...birds and beasts were there. The big baboon by the light of the moon Was combing his auburn hair. The monkey, he got drunk And sat on the elephant's trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ball | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...Loree's opponents succeed in crowding him out of the Eastern trunk-line field the following mergers will in all probability become effective as long planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 4 or 5 Systems | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Loree's adversaries fail, there may come into being a fifth Eastern trunk-line system. Last week Loree stood silent. His faithful lieutenants howled "press agent" at adverse propaganda, as usual. Three years the battle has raged. Significantly, April First is fixed by both sides as solution date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 4 or 5 Systems | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...accommodate three fares. There is a single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ford Hacks | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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