Word: packets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another college town, Princeton, N. J. has no daily newspaper. Princeton citizens get their news of the world from papers of nearby Trenton, Philadelphia, Manhattan, local news from the collegiate Princetonian, which has no Sunday edition, from the Herald and Packet, both weeklies...
...doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet of 2½% securities than to have nothing left but the memory of fat pay envelopes which somehow turned lean in the spending...
...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...
Died. Mrs. Blanche Douglass Leathers, 79, first woman master of a Mississippi River packet, daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with the Robert E. Lee; of cerebral hemorrhage; in New Orleans...
...Commissionaire Micouleau was able to announce that there was not the slightest sign of bullet marks on or in Unity's head. "The only thing wrong with her head is that it is turned!" shrugged M. Micouleau after kindly British tars had carried Unity safely aboard a Channel packet while her mother held her hand. She looked pale, dull-eyed and tottery but presently sat up, laughed and chattered with her mother...