Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter and half-mile on the same day. The next best runner in the race seemed to be Vic Williams of Southern California but Eastman had beaten him two weeks before at the same distance. They came out of the chute with Eastman running well back in the pack, his hands dangling, his stride so smooth that it might have been designed to keep his glasses from falling off. Eastman was ahead coming into the last turn when Williams, who had started badly, began to catch up, running with his legs wide apart, his face twisted into an expression...
Samuel Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared...
...indomitable old lady prepared to pack and leave as she had done 58 years...
...Canfield with Mr. Hultman has become so boring to both of them, there is no doubt but that he will produce a tray of clubs, nicely grafted to those who deal in the traffic. The deuce of it is that there seem to be too many knaves in the pack, and no one seems to be ready to call a spade a spade...
Fresh from their victory over the Freshmen last Saturday, the Lowell House rugby team will meet the Gold Coast at 3.15 o'clock. The Gold Coast team has two pack forwards which are almost of University calibre. Then at 4.15 o'clock Freshmen will oppose the Yard team, which has the strongest backs of all the intramural squads. The Freshmen have a well balanced team with promising material. These games assume added importance, since the moving foreward of the University matches necessitates the selection of first and second teams tomorrow...