Word: haversack
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...cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert No. 3, Commander Archibald Bruce Campbell (retired), glared red-faced at his high-brow colleagues. The first question, propounded by elegant Humorist William Donald McCullough, was "What are the Seven Wonders of the World?" Nobody knew...
...insist on wearing turbans, over which no steel helmet can fit. Finally, the Sikhs worked out an agreement with their British officers, accepted the helmets. Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
...then continued by sketching the development of the express traffic of the world, showing how the former one-man, local, messenger business founded in Boston over 80 years ago, a haversack being the only equipment, developed into the present day service of the American Railway Express Company, with more than 100,000 employees and extending over 256,000 miles of railway. The air service will soon develop along similar lines...
...Well," said Senator Oddie, "those coyotes must carry a canteen and a haversack in this country...