Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actual journey occurred last March, but Marden, the son and grandson of Harvard men, had long hoped and planned on a Harvard education. After receiving his degree from the University of New Zealand, he left his home with a pack on his back, the New Zealand equivalent of twenty dollars in his pocket, the blessings of his family and the jeers of his fellow students. Arriving at the port of Wellington, he was signed on by a U. S. troop transport on its way home from the Orient...
Pennsylvania's able entry, now heading the pack and as yet unbeaten in collegiate competition, will tackle Cornell at Ithaca next weekend. This should be a particularly hard-fought battle and will serve to clarify further the true ability of these two teams...
Eyewitnesses said the building seemed to fold up like a pack of cards, trapping most of the children under the wreckage and blasting others against a brick wall. Fires broke out. For the next few days Civil Defense workers, fathers & mothers of the victims and American and British soldiers labored to recover the dead and wounded. Many mothers learned the worst from the little shoes and blue hats & coats laid out neatly in a nearby church...
...migration, but there was more behind it. The ultimate goal was to open and develop Brazil's western territories for future generations, possibly for thousands of impoverished emigrants from Europe when the war is over. The men and women threading their way up the river by boat, by pack mule, and afoot had pioneers' jobs: to lay the foundations for the development of rubber plantations, to build airports and highways to link the reclaimed land with...
Since General Gerhardt formally activated the gist ("Wild West") Division at Camp White last August, some of his junior officers have developed convenient hernias or obtained transfers to softer outfits; but he himself takes raw men under pack five miles through the rain in one hour, nine miles in two, finishes at the double, insists that every officer under him be able to do the same. Even Gerhardt's chaplains practice marksmanship, swim icy rivers, make themselves physical as well as moral exemplars...