Word: packs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Freshmen trailed Arlington High School 26 to 30 yesterday in the opening cross-country meet of the season, although A. H. O'Neil '28, former Exeter track captain, led the pack to the tape and won the individual honors for the Crimson. The meet was run over the three-mile Freshman course...
...knowledge that they pack into their brains is, in every reasonable cultural sense, useless; it is the sort of knowledge that belongs, not to a professional man, but to a police captain, a railway mail clerk, or a board boy in a brokerage house. It is a mass of trivialities and puerilities; to recite it would be to make even a barber or a bartender beg for mercy. . . . Honor does not go with stupidity...
Professor C. H. Moore chose Alaska as the place in which to spend his summer vacation. He travelled over the "great open spaces" in search of game, accompanied by guides and a caravan of twelve pack mules. He bagged a good many deer, bears and lynx--bringing back the antlers of one of the deer as trophies to revive his memories of the trip...
...months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
Around the turn, into the stretch they swept, Zev gaining, when Epinard got free, strode out past Zev. The field looked his to run away with. Then, lo around the pack and out of it galloped Wise Counsellor. Faster and faster he sped, past Baffling, past Zev, past Epinard, past the finish, a winner by three-quarters of the length of his body. Ladkin, spurting brilliantly, was home behind the game French horse...