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Word: packed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Oyster War | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

Martyrs prosper in Irish air. Suddenly the cries were "Up O'Duffy!" "Down with the Broy Harriers!", the latter a play on the name of Dublin Police Chief Broy and a famed Irish pack of fast but craven rabbit hounds. De Valera men countered with tales of the soft life O'Duffy would lead in the Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Up & Down O'Duffy | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends most. It had taken much bullying from tall Mrs. Ickes, Illinois legislator, to pack him off to the hospital when he limped into his office after his fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Quorum | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice to young girls and harassed mothers. The public, needless to say, is always disappointed, and might better get its vicarious sexual satisfaction from a Mae West opus; but the suckers continue to pack the theatres, and the producers continue to reap a golden harvest...

Author: By T.b. Oc., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

...courage of the pioneer mother who, with her husband absent in the East, raised a family and tilled her farm on the prairies of the unopened land of Michigan, the young girl who carried the precious pack of Revolutionary information from New London to General Washington in Boston, the southern belle who left her plantation for the Richmond front and the improvised hospitals, and the crusading modernist who feels she too must enter into the spirit of the capitalistic system make us all too aware of the adventurous campaigning life that America's women have lead. But do they reveal...

Author: By J. M., | Title: Feminist History | 12/20/1933 | See Source »

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