Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most players enjoy these holdings less frequently than they should. They cheat themselves out of juicy hands by hasty or unskillful shuffling which does not produce true random distribution. After a hand of play the pack is composed of 13 tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds...
Professor Woodruffs showiest figure is the number of ways in which a pack of 52 cards may be arranged...
Once a year in the full of the moon, according to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the amiable wolves of India gather in packs to pass judgment on the year's crop of cubs. Forth from their lairs and into the shadow of the great Council Rock the she-wolves nuzzle their young. If the cub is judged fit to run with the pack, all is well. If not, the she-wolf and her cubs henceforth hunt alone. And according to Rudyard Kipling that is poor hunting indeed. Last week in Manhattan, like the mother-wolves of India...
Chrysler Corp. is the only other motormaker with a full line to bring to Manhattan for yearly judgment. But what it brought last week was unique (TIME, Jan. 8). The pack's curiosity in Mowgli, the wolf-suckled youth, was apathetic compared to the public's interest in the new Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos. These were not the traditional automobile with a streamlined body attached but a completely new design. Instead of a frame and body the whole steel-trussed body is the frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers...
...behavior of one who, although he is my uncle, should know better. . . . I refer to the Duke of Westminster. He is one of the richest Englishmen. His money should do good in and to England. Instead of shouldering his responsibilities, he has two houses in France, a pack of boar hounds also in France, a yacht on which he spends a good deal of his time in foreign waters, and now I see he is no longer going to have any race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France. Is this setting a good example? "Dukes...