Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient Persian playing card painted in bright colors on a thin block of wood, and a pack with Braille markings for use by the blind are among the interesting items in a collection of rare cards, which has been bequeathed to the University by the late Albert Thorndike '81 of Boston...
...modern, coming from almost all the countries of the civilized world, are included in the bequest. The largest, of American make, measures 12 inches high by 8 inches wide; the smallest, coming from Switzerland, is only one-half by three-quarters of an inch. A unique item is a pack of modern round cards, which the manufacturer asserts are waterproof...
...approximately 3% on his money. The ballyhoo over canned beer- a novelty which will not really meet its test until the summer of 1936-gave both can stocks an added fillip of enthusiasm which has been modified on second thought. Barring a slump in the 1936 fruit and vegetable pack, the future would appear to hold no menace for the can business which stands high among the more stable and profitable of U. S. industries...
...Trivett. Upon him crashed an avalanche of letters from crusty Shanghai Britons and their wives. Was the Church of England going to do "irreparable damage to British prestige" in China? Was a "bazaar girl," as the English ladies expressed it, to be wed in a Christian Cathedral pack-jammed with pagan guests and with Chinese floodlights and Chinese sound cameras perpetuating the scene to be flung before slant-eyed millions in Chinese newsreels...
...Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about...