Word: bagging
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...reduced the gas temperature to very nearly absolute zero. The significance: solid helium, crystalline and transparent in glass tubes, would transport far more handily than the gaseous form. Helium gas is so tenuous that it would take comparatively few tubes of the solid to fill a dirigible's bag...
...matters were farm relief-which might once have been postponed until autumn on the excuse of insufficient time-and rivers-and-harbors appropriations- which involved major issues as well as a bag full of self-ingratiating tricks by scores of politicians...
...carpet-bag" was a traveling bag usually made of carpeting. "Carpet-bagger" came to be applied to fly-by-night adventurers who appeared in the South after the Civil War and set themselves up without any material baggage or backing to exploit the community...
...neither for existence or importance. There could be hardly more pictorial presentation of the truism that when society proposes, the politician has no choice but to dispose. He may sit on the lid as cartoonists so often picture him, or he may let the cat prematurely out of the bag in the metaphor of conservatives; but government will ultimately reckon with all outstanding social evils...
...doing the catering. The wedding gifts included a diamond and emerald bracelet (from the Downtown Tammany Club of New York City), two diamond bracelets, four oriental rugs, a dozen silver plates (from the State troopers), a Whistler etching, two carloads of early American furniture, a sapphire bow, a gold bag containing 50 $20 gold pieces, valuable tapestries, 20 clocks, 25 lamps, 25 chests of silver, 50 sets of dishes. The couple will live in a four-room house in Albany...