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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back a child with bronchial asthma up against a tree and peg a lock of his hair into a hole bored in the tree trunk. Snip the lock from his head. When bark grows over the hair, the asthma will disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedies | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...join with Great Britain in observing a two-minute silence at 11 a. m. on Armistice Day. He founded the namesake Towns movement to bring together U. S. and British towns of like names. His medals, decorations, citations, scrolls and memorials would fill a trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: John Bull | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Switch-Board Finishes Quarter Century of Service---150 Calls Per Day Proves Fatal | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

...heary predecessor, the new switch board connects with some 66 different rooms throughout the confines of the older buildings of the domains of the Gold Coasters, in addition to which there are also two other phones for the janitor and the like. Unfortunately, however, only six of the trunk lines can be connected up at one time; and although the operator late last night refused to commit himself, we'll bet he has a hard time listening in on all of them at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Switch-Board Finishes Quarter Century of Service---150 Calls Per Day Proves Fatal | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

...triple switchboard which is connected with 800 telephones in the various offices around the college. All calls within this system are free, and several thousand are made a day. All outside calls cost $.05 apiece, and of these there are approximately 1000 daily. The Central switchboard is connected by trunk lines to the new Biological Building, the H. A. A. and the business School and it is necessary to employ four operators to take care of this system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Construction Project Carried on by University Now Complete--Many New Mechanical Devices Installed | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

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