Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook made his own first and only "dash to the Pole." He left the land in March, trekked across the pack ice with only two Eskimos, two sleds, 26 dogs. He claimed that he reached the North Pole on April 21, spent two days taking observations of the sun. On the way back he had a dreadful time, spent the following winter in a cave...
...That Peary, a man of 53, by no means rugged, minus several toes lost on a previous expedition, could not possibly have sledged 150 airline miles in 56 hours over rough pack ice; that Cook did not claim much more than 15 miles...
...main advantage of the set as I have it now," he shouted over the rumblings emerging from the knob-covered instruments that litter his desk, "is that it's transportable. I can run downstairs and pack the whole thing in my car, hitch it up to a storage battery, and serve as a highly efficient motorized radio emergency patrol...
...tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...
...muddy field would raise havoc with complicated Harvard offensive operations, but Yale passing would obviously suffer considerably. In rain or snow, the Harlowmen should pack just a bit too much running punch for the New Haven Invaders...