Word: packed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Wilson's Boston speech, which touched upon rather than described or discussed the League of Nations, was a straightforward, manful appeal to high motives and farsight in public policy, which is the President's trump, and apparently the highest in the pack. He treated a combination of nations, on substantially the basis of the document that has been circulated throughout the world, as a foregone conclusion. Otherwise he said, the European war would have been fought in vain; the blood of America's sons would have been given in vain; the European peace will be made in vain...
...place for the Lower World. It is not a Palm Beach, but it is two hours nearer to New York than that far-famed winter resort and the lure of the Metropolis is something to look forward to after all. The man who has weathered a Cambridge winter can pack up his ba-ba in the old kit bag and sneer at the terrors of a Yaphank winter...
...head line exhibition brought the crowd of 25,000 spectators up with a roar in the opening minutes of the final period. Catching a punt hoisted aloft to midfield by the toe of Harry Legore, Pollard dexterously threw off the Yale ends, started towards the right, drawing the entire pack of Yale tacklers in the direction, and then using a puzzling side step, switched to the left where he outstripped every Yale pursuer in a desperate sprint for the Yale goal line, sailing across with the second touchdown...
Tuesday, first period: Company drill-school of the soldier and squad, and the manual of arms; second period: Description, care, etc., of the rifle; third period: The assembly and manipulation of the infantry pack...
...area of nearly 200 square miles. During that time they were organized as a Government party doing actual geological work in an unsurveyed region. After visiting a number of the important mines and milling plants in the district, the party, with a light equipment, went with a pack train through the mountains. Detailed work, followed by the trip through the mountains, made it possible for the men to not only become familiar with a large number of geological phenomena, but to appreciate better the great physical history of the mountains, and through the emphasis of physiographic methods, to understand...