Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...babe in Bethlehem. Whole districts inside the capital's walls are open fields, dotted here and there with ruined bridges that once spanned rivulets which no longer exist. Down by the Bund fronting the Yangtze River lives a large community of Nanking's 500,000 Chinese people, pack-jammed into squalid, odorous huts. Dotted on impressive sites connected by fine boulevards are shining, splendorous government buildings all completed since China's present leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, set up his regime at Nanking which means "Southern Capital," abandoning Peking, the "Northern Capital" which Japanese captured this year. Last...
...field of research, which he calls Parapsychology, Dr. Rhine is the most conspicuous university investigator in the U. S. His tools and methods are essentially simple. Prime piece of apparatus is a pack of cards bearing five designs: a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. The pack consists of 25 cards, five cards of each design. To observe clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards one by one as the pack lies face down. To observe telepathy they are asked to call cards imagined in the mind of another person...
...Stahley's Yardling squad was admitted to the practice game in the Stadium Saturday and they sat through three quarters observing the technique of their Varsity brothers. But with the close of the third quarter the coach snapped his mythical but nonetheless effective long black whip and drove his pack out to their grid...
...months' rest was Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, onetime leader of the Theosophists. Said he, "In Europe men are acting like a pack of lunatics; talking peace and making ready for war. I just go on talking to people, trying to persuade them to break down the little walls they build around themselves...
...matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly together, creating a heavy, lifeless "neutron star." With the possible exception of one 19th Century supernova, the supernova reported by Dr. Zwicky last week was the brightest ever studied by modern astronomers. It was ten times brighter than the average supernova, 100 times brighter than the whole island universe...