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...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...
...Illinois State Journal, has just passed to the control of Col. Ira Clifton Copley. One newspaper acquisition at a time is normally enough for growing publishers. Not so Col. Copley. He stretched half across a continent and added almost simultaneously the San Diego Union and Tribune to his pack* of papers...
...evening of Thursday, February 9, a game is scheduled with St. Francis Xavier, in the Boston Arena. Two days later, on Saturday February 11, the puck-chasers will pack their skates and sticks to Journey to Buffalo where they are to play against the Nichols Hockey Club...
...because the theatre cash book for this year has been preserved. Mr. Gay secured it, and it is now one of the notable treasures in the Harvard Library, where the Theatre Collection and the English Literature section are striving to make good their respective claims to its custody. A pack of cards, on each of which is one of the tunes or a verse from one of the songs of the opera, is another otherwise unknown witness to the popularity of the play, as well as being an important addition to the collection of playing cards given...
...Some people pack their suitcases and clutch their tickets days before leaving for the train. President Coolidge, off for Cuba, knew that train time would come without his waiting for it. He passed the week with no outward sign of excitement...