Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into 81 filing cases White House clerks last week began to pack the private papers of the President preparatory to his, removal elsewhere. President Hoover paused to watch the work, riffled old letters between his fingers, chuckled as he read bits here & there...
...Vagabond hoped, with his crass "Don't you think. . ." A sole invasion, perhaps. But no. There was the seedy individual who whined it down his long spectacle bestridden nose; there was the impeccable curlyhead, doubtless a Freshman, who wheedled; there was the lumpy cherub who peeped. The pack...
Once the present Republic of Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...
...Ph.D., wrote the American Museum a reluctant letter offering to sell most of his birds. They had cost him around $1,000,000, but when a rich Museum patron offered half that much the deal was closed. Curator Robert Cushman Murphy hastened to Tring last February, helped classify, catalog, pack the nearly 280,000 specimens. Last week the Museum's President Henry Fairfield Osborn announced that Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her three children had presented the Tring collection as a memorial to their husband & father, the late Harry Payne Whitney.* It will be housed in the new Whitney...
...exhibited an invention of Lawrens Hammond of Hammond Clock Co.: an electric bridge table which deals the cards through four slots, one at each side. The electric table does not shuffle the cards but two revolving arms inside are so controlled that they deal 52 different ways. If the pack were always arranged the same way when put into the table, the 53rd hand would duplicate the first. Since this never happens, the table's method of dealing is equivalent to a thorough shuffle. Observers noticed a defect to be corrected in later models: after the table had dealt...