Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They left their ship at Bombay, the railroad and motor cars in northernmost India at Srinagar. They gathered their pack beasts, guides, food, guns, blankets, maps and nerve, and bored on foot into the mountainous fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose...
Regent Zona Gale was instructed to ask the Madison, Wis., telephone operator to connect her with Editor Frank in Manhattan without further delay. A deputation of the Regents was appointed to pack suitcases, entrain and wait on Editor Frank in person...
...Quatrain could catch him. He was running between solid lanes of people; the finish was almost upon him. With a tremendous, unnecessary effort, he lifted Flying Ebony down the last half furlong. A length and a half behind came Captain Hal. Four lengths back, Singlefoot led the struggling, straggling pack. Sande found himself with a gold cup in his hand, a bunch of roses in his arms, on the back of Flying Ebony, smiling into the cameras that make the world's press...
Practice yesterday was moved ahead two hours in order to give the crew management time to pack the Pocock shell for shipment on the same train which the oarsmen took. Captain Kelley's crew rowed yesterday at 3.30 o'clock, going over the mile and three-quarter Basin course in a time trial. While Coach Stevens refused to give the time made, he announced that he was very pleased with the showing of the crew, and considered that the University boat stood an excellent chance of coming through a winner in its second race of the year...
...alumni bodies in decisions of minor importance. But certainly all members of the faculty, professors, assistant professors and instructors should sit in faculty meetings and have some voice in affairs. Small wonder the less distinguished members of that august body are dissatisfied when they are ignored! Small wonder they pack up and go to a university which does not refuse to recognize their potentialities by a guarantee that they will be maintained for a reasonable length of time. Yale cannot afford to sacrifice good teachers to other universities. It is time to wake up and see why we are losing...