Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...
...Probably the lightest pack carried by any infantryman in the world. During the World War the U. S. soldier...
ANYONE who has ever climbed with a pack on his back knows the drag on the shoulders, the seemingly endless upward effort necessary to progress. At such times, the tramper searches his memory for some poem to symbolize that steady, grinding advance, a perspiring conquest analogous in a small way to the sustained march of the pioneers across this country. No such uphill epic has, so far as I know, ever been written...
Long Beach, Calif., looked forward to new beauty treatments: "The Huddleston Grease Pack," "The Catalina Clip," "The Huddle" (Shampoo...
...must have been the beef. We've never been this way before. It's all a pack of lies. But tonight the waiter brought us some red, red beef. It looked quite angry or embarrassed, two conditions which induce rudd' ness. But the white-coated Ganymede quieted our fears. "It's rare, not very well done," he vowed...