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Word: packs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following two complaints have been confirmed: Harvard Variety Store cigarettes, $21 a pack, (general rise has been to $.20) Bill's Place sandwiches and dinners, up average of 15 percent

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cost of Living Still on Upgrade | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...students expected at this year's "College Week," over half are girls, a fact which makes even mountain climbing interesting to some of the more slothful members. These girls, however, can take care of themselves. Some of them carry a 60 pound pack up a 5000 foot mountain or bike 90 miles in a day. Incidentally, a young couple accompanies the group to act as chaperones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekly Excursions of Outing Club Feature Exercise, Female Company | 8/2/1946 | See Source »

...benefit of newsmen around him he spoke in English: "I have told the judge thank you for fair trial given me in United States of America. I shake hands with jurors. And now you pack our things." Galina, who had more faith in U.S. justice, had never unpacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Reasonable Doubt | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...American, and I got so mad at Reutlinger that I almost punched him in the puss," said she. "But they're going to go along with me. . . . Heirens didn't do this. Call it woman's intuition. But if he did, then I'll just pack my bags quietly and steal out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wuxtry! Read All About It! | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hardier Germs | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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