Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prodigious John Woodruff, overtaking a pack of puny rivals in four giraffe strides to win the 800-meter...
Sparkler. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. brought out its Raleigh cigarettes in a shiny new aluminum foil package, now being tried out in Detroit. The pack, stronger and more moisture-proof than paper, was developed by Reynolds Metals Co. Raleigh hopes to offset the higher material cost by production savings in wrapping the single-sheet unit...
Students whose card tastes run only as far as Seven Card Stud, or even the more elite Contract flends may be interested to learn that the University owns a pack of Hindustani cards invented by a queen to prevent her husband from pulling out the hairs in his beard...
composed of 96 round cards divided into eight suits, the Hindustani pack is called "Gunja-Kha," which means "relieving scalp." The suits bear such names as Ghulam, or slave, end Burart, or royal diploma, and the king, by keeping his hands busy playing cards, was unable to scratch his head or beard, keeping baldness at a minimum...
With a crew of 34 from Eliot House leading the pack, scores of unconditioned athletes descended on sunny Soldiers Field yesterday to organize for the heralded opening of the Intramural League next Monday...