Word: packed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modified last week by the District of Columbia Supreme Court was the 1920 consent decree which ordered Armour and Swift to pack & sell meats only (TIME, Oct. 20). After a three months' trial Justice Jennings Bailey decided that they could handle groceries, fruits, vegetables and dairy products wholesale, but could not become retail food merchants...
...alone in my disgust with the usual college lecture. A veteran educator suggests that no professor be allowed to lecture until he has proved that he can bill a town, pack a hall, and satisfy people who have paid good money to hear him hold forth. A student at a famous Mid-Western university describes the lecture system as "that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need...
...young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...Hoover could have readily identified him as Lawrence Richie, a Hoover secretary who was once a detective, knows the art of disguise.) When Santa Claus Richie offered him a doll from his pack, Herbert III scorned it, declared...
...detest those statistician hounds who put things end to end and stretch them across the country, so don't publish this if it's going to start the pack off in full...