Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mount Pleasant, N. Y. on the estate of Mrs, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. ("Fifi" Stillman), a pack of hungry dogs attacked a herd of sheep, slew 18. Extra guards were posted around the neighboring estate of Mr. McCormick's grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller...
...public will support it, or if a backer can be found, the Woman's National Symphony Orchestra plans to be a permanent, touring organization. Conductor Leginska will pack up her spare frock-coat then. Violinist Eileen Mayo will abandon the schooner aboard which she lives. Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba...
Harvard as well as Dartmouth missed several apparent scoring opportunities. Passing, indicative as it is of good play, was seemingly carried to an excess by the Crimson players who in handing the pack about in front of the visitors net, allowed the opposing defencemen to gather when it seemed as if a quick shot would have found a comparatively undefeated not. The Dartmouth skaters, on the other hand, had great difficulty in controlling the disc at all and were unable to capitalize when deGive, the Harvard netman, was drawn far out of position...
What? No aces in the pack...
...decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...