Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rolls-Royce after Rolls-Royce twinkled up to the docks in Southampton, although it was Derby Day, and swank Britons scrambled to wave goodbys while broad Southampton Water was pack-jammed with British paddle-wheel steamers made joyously lopsided by passengers crowding near as possible to the Queen Mary. From Buckingham Palace the King Emperor flashed final greetings. From the Stateliest Ship began stately and soul-stirring B.B.C. broadcasts day and night to every remotest corner of the empire...
...place alone it is possible to break through. The Rishinala, the gorge made by glacial waters draining from these peaks out of the valley, provides a long chimney 4,000 feet deep, along the walls of which it will be necessary to pack the supplies. Shipton and Tilman, two Englishmen who discovered the gorge in 1924 and the only men ever to enter this valley, found that it took them two days to work through the Rishinala before they were able to get to the valley...
...Bold Venture, winner of the Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 11): the 46th running of the PreaknessStakes. Jockey Georgie Wolff held Bold Venture far back in the pack for more than half the distance, let Granville, who ran riderless in the Derby after dumping his jockey, set the pace. Their heads and legs were as one as they sped across the line. A camera-eye picture of the finish determined the victory which made Bold Venture the fifth horse ever to win both the Derby and the Preakness...
...last minute sprint eked out a half-length victory and the House championship for the Lowell boat yesterday afternoon. The Bellboy blademen will pack up their shell and trek to Derby on Friday to match oars with Saybrook, the Eli Intramural champs...
...deserted. An exhausted runner had just arrived from Gerado with news of an advancing column of Italian cavalry followed by tanks, motor trucks. They could only be a mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck...