Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pistol crack set 129 pairs of legs into motion. For 200 yd. the pack of runners awkwardly angled across the springy turf like a vast centipede, then spread-eagled as the pace slackened. The legs plodded up Van Cortlandt Park's hilly course, coasted around to the starting field. Spectators, paying little attention to the wiry, green-jerseyed leader, No. 129, carefully watched Pennsylvania's smooth-striding Gene Venzke in 15th place...
From the start of the Triangular Meet, the race was between Playfair and Woodland, with Channing, forcing his way to the front of the remaining pack for a Crimson third place. At the halfway mark, Playfair began to step up the pace, but Woodland gamely matched stride for stride with the Harvard captain, and when they entered the home-stretch, Woodland was in the lead...
...plaited bull whip laid on until quivering flesh and muscles came off in strips and the bones of the black man's carcass gleamed white in Death. After the twelfth horror, Harar's market place resumed its normal function, jammed with horse bargainers who ignored a pack of mangy dogs sniffing hungrily at bloody spots on the cobbles which they had almost licked clean...
Favorites with the women of Japan are Japanese Poem Cards, 200 in a pack, which are divided into two equal parts. The first 100 each have the picture of a Japanese poet with two lines of a poem of his written below the picture. On each of the other 100 the poem is finished. In playing the game one person reads the poem, while the other tries to put her finger on the picture of the poet who wrote...
...this the Chinese pack, each card of which stands for a certain amount of "each," the name of a Chinese coin. The most rudimentary of the packs is a Koreau set set of long, thin, oiled papers called playing sticks, which originated from arrows used for divinatory purpose, later developing into games...