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Word: wagonload (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the last wagonload of brawling students left the Square, police had thwarted an attempt to immobilize a Lochmere-bound trolley and the Cambridge fire department had answered one false alarm in the riot area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest 15 in Square As Riot Follows Tiger Rally | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...sleepy village of Manchester, Vt. (pop. 325) sat up and took notice last week. White-haired ladies from porch rockers of the Equinox House, straw-hatted farmers, Green Mountain tourists and artists by the station-wagonload jammed into the red brick gymnasium where the Southern Vermont Artists' Association was staging its 20th annual show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milk & Spinach | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blue-Chip Blues | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Cubs and Braves in a bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen of good luck) around the Polo Grounds. But there was a shortage of barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Everybody's Ballplayer | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Smith was wont to ride into each town perched majestically on the topmost bale of a wagonload of cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Cotton Ed Serves Notice | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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