Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining the purpose of the floor work, Ulen said that a swimmer may have very good form but that before the season has progressed very far he often finds that he lacks the stamina to carry on. The body-building exercises serve to strengthen the muscles of the trunk and chest and thus enable the swimmer to develop greater stamina. They also give him a chance to develop the shoulder and hip muscles necessary to the improvement of the arm stroke and the leg drive respectively. Along in February the swimmer finds that as a result of the floor work...
...inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted him violently...
Rail Plan Filed, Last January President Hoover acted as spokesman for the four great eastern trunk lines (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio). He announced that they had agreed on a consolidation plan after ten years of bitter fighting (TIME, Jan. 12). Last week, after many rumors in the intervening months of insuperable obstacles, the four roads filed their plan with the I. C. C. It was the same plan that was proposed last January except that definite agreements had been reached on delicate points before left high in air. Important were...
...flying all over Europe with commissions to buy antiques. He did not know much about antiques, but he learned quickly, did his job well. Almost as flashy a dresser as Publisher Roy Howard, Frank Earl Mason was known as the only correspondent who ever travelled with a shoe trunk...
...State highways. These highways run through rural districts and avoid the cities, or stop at their outskirts, though more than 50% of all motor vehicles are registered in cities and towns of over 10,000 population. Last week the American Automobile Association proposed a new system: that States treat trunk-line thoroughfares in cities as a part of the State highway systems; that these trunk lines through congested areas be built with funds from State motor taxes...