Word: packs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the morning. Farmer Burdsall marvelled to hear this, for Sportsman Fisher, as a member of the Fairfield and Westchester County Hounds, must often have arisen as early as six o'clock to chase foxes in his fine red coat behind a whole pack of hounds baying past the sleepy neighbors' windows. Sportsman Fisher offered Farmer Burdsall $200 damages for the dead hound. Farmer Burdsall declined...
...Super-Government." The hue and cry that followed was, of course, loudest in Democratic newspapers. Leader of the pack was the alert New York World. Governor Pinchot's "s u p e r-p o w e r" (electricity) plan was recalled and the term "super-government" was coined. The World editorial was entitled "A Noble Conspiracy" and commented on how "the very good people, not just the respectable ones, but the good people, the good women in small towns, raised a fund which was used openly, honestly and with the best intentions to subvert the authority...
Charles Lathrop Pack, president, American Tree Association...
...defining state authority, the Court did not only limit. In the case of the Pacific American Fisheries v. Alaska, the Court held that the territory could legally compel fish canneries which pack large amounts of fish to pay a higher tax per pound than canneries with smaller outputs. The Court declared that the tax was fair because it tended to preserve the subject (fish) of taxation...
...apathetic, and the performance of a standard very much lower than that to which I had been accustomed in Brussels. Two days later I was again in Mr. Harris' office. He offered me the role of the page in the Ballo in Maschera-and my reply was to pack my trunks and to go straight back to Brussels...