Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allan Hoover to the Business School in 1929. When Florence Trumbull said that John was not to drive a car, when H. H. crisped the wires to warn Allan against the talkies, a gawpish public moved in. Even in those days it was all very unpleasant. Perhaps those Spanish trunk labels hold little promise after...
...takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers, the whole plant dies. Mexicans commonly intercept the climax by cutting out the stalk bud as soon...
...Junior packed his trunk methodically. "Yes, group II once more, but I don't know that it's all for the best. If you want to know what I really think about studies, I'll tell you. The best thing for the Group I scholar is for him to drop for a while to group V, and the best thing for the group V man is to get into group I. A lot of trouble would be settled that...
...Italy Valley. N. Y., natural gas seeped into hollows in the 130-ft. trunk of what was said to be the State's largest elm tree, was ignited by a grass fire, exploded, destroyed the tree, tossed up sparks that burned three barns, two roofs...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...