Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dudley Talbot at present leads the pack in the close number three race with Pete Brooks and Phil Hallowell close behind. Hallowell has been sick for quite a while and may have some trouble getting back in the running but he was good on the Freshman boat a year ago. Dick Both is also coming along well and may do a lot before the last judgement comes...
...Shocked," "troubled," "stunned," "puzzled" were the adjectives used by the press in describing British reactions to the crisis. Popular, young (40) Anthony promptly went forth to address his constituents at Leamington. Some 1,300 pack-jammed the hall cheering, while an overflow meeting of 400 was arranged...
...start, eleventh at the half-mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...
...floe, meanwhile, in the gloom of Arctic winter, Leader Ivan Papanin glimpsed the searchlight beam from an icebreaker 40 miles away. That was the Taimyr, laboring toward them through the pack ice. At 20 miles, the going was so difficult that the Taimyr's commander thought of trying to blast a channel through the pack, but this plan was discarded as impractical. The men on the "station" marked out with flags a safe landing place on the ice near their floe, and the first contact was made by airplane...
Last week the Taimyr struggled within a mile of the Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist...