Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
...last week Evie gave up her usual afternoon activities to stand with White House newshounds outside the office of her friend Franklin Roosevelt. When the door opened she tumbled inside first ahead of the pack, and handed the President of the United States a big red apple wrapped in a white silk ribbon. "Is it a McIntosh?" smiled Mr. Roosevelt. "No, I'm sorry-it's a sheep's nose," trilled Evie. "We'll have to try them in Dutchess County," remarked Squire Roosevelt, still smiling, and turned to the business of his press conference...
...sales, as in 1936 and 1937, Chevrolet led the pack, hotly pressed by Ford, with Plymouth third. But stable for stable, the Ford, Lincoln-Zephyr combination ran third, the Chrysler line (Plymouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler) second and General Motors (Chevrolet, Pontiac. Buick, Oldsmobile. LaSalle and Cadillac) far out in front. For 1939, Henry Ford has two major bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field...
...Michael's Hospital, Newark, treated 15 people for shock. A man called the Dixie Bus Terminal, shouting "The World is coming to an end and I've got a lot to do!" It was said that President Roosevelt was on the radio telling everybody to pack up and go north...
LONDON--The Dean of Westminister Abbey today told a group of excavators to pack up their spades and get out after they had opened the wrong grave in search of an answer to the 170-year-old dispute as to whether William Shakespeare really wrote his own stuff...