Word: trunkful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prayer. The construction of highways will be treated by Harold Parker, delegate to the international congress on road building at Paris. James M. MacDonald, president of the American Roadmakers Association, will speak on the necessity of co-operation between states in the construction of state roads, in order that trunk lines may be made between important cities. The final paper will be read by Hon N. J. Batchelder, ex-governor of New Hampshire, on automobiles and their regulation. He will consider especially other means of enforcing the necessary laws than by traps and similar methods...
...second feat was the most wonderful of the evening and was performed in full sight of the audience. A strait jacket was buckled on by straps fastened behind his back. By violent exertion of the trunk he managed to work the strap fastening his hands up to his left shoulder and then slipped it forward by grinding his shoulder on the floor. It was then possible for him to unbuckle this strap with his teeth, and to undo with his hands, although enclosed in the sleeves, the strap behind his neck. Thus the jacket was sufficiently loosened to enable...
Reduced rates of a fare and one-third, on the certificate plan, have been secured from the Trunk Line Association, the New England Passenger Association. The Central Passenger Association and the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association. In applying for certificates from ticket agents, mention the Archaelogical Institute of America instead of the American Folk-Lore Society. In consulting time tables it should be remembered that East Ithaca is the Ithaca station of the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Le high Valley Railroad. Cars meet all trains at this station, and all cars pass the hotels...
...dynamometer is attached to a movable foot-rest, instead of, as formerly, to the floor. This prevents the possibility of raising the dynamometer needle by a sudden jerk. In tests 6 and 7 the legs must be kept straight and on a line with the trunk and no swaying is allowed...
...strength and capacity of the lungs, and on the ability to dip and chin. The new system is based on the following series of exercises: Lying down and rising to a sitting posture, chinning, dipping while resting on the knees, bending of knees to a squatting posture, bending of trunk forward, and rising on toes and heels...