Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that you will undoubtedly receive numerous letters expressing both amazement and doubt as to the overland trip from Colombia to Panama through this comparatively unexplored and almost impenetrable jungle. We, therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner...
...would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
...then 6:15 p. m. Mystified, passengers watched 99 of the 206 crew, mostly Chinese, their belongings on their backs, shuffle off the ship, followed by manicurist, barber and orchestra. Finally they were told the reason and 78 of 90 passengers of the President Jackson were politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant "left behinds" booked on other lines, and at evening the 14,000-ton President Jackson sailed from a deserted dock, demoted, in almost the twinkling of an eye by the Commerce Department...
...built roadway, the last link in a highway connecting the highest and lowest spots in the U. S. A gourd of mountain water dipped from Tulainyo was carried through 150 miles of cheers, bands and barbecues, first by Indian runner, then in succession by pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping airplane into Bad Water, a brackish pool at Death Valley's lowest point. The fiesta was called the "Wedding of the Waters." Local citizenry hoped its offspring would...
...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...