Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pack animals made a long line of quadrupeds as they trailed along the foot of the mountain. Had they known the rigors which they were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made...
...quick to notice that as soon as the pack animals realized that we were moving beyond the timber line, they ceased to function, some even lying down. Remember that time was short and that twelve photographers as well as an advance agent of the Alpine Club were waiting there at the bottom of this mountain for news of our success...
...pack animals." I was going to be gay with the remark that I had some camels, but remembered myself in time to forget it. Alone then but for ourselves we continued our slow climb. I had never been so high before except once at Revere Beach and that time old Aunt Kate took me to the top of the Woolworth Building. And yet here I was high above the waters of Champlain, working my way even higher. And then it snowed, snowed with the fury of ten unhappy children and a spanked grand-child...
Professor Hydere E. Rollins '16, who received his professorship in English last spring, its publishing two collections of old English ballads. "The Pack of Autolycus" is the first of these, and the second has the alluring title "The Paradise of Dainty Devices". Rollins is a regular contributor to the University Press. Last year at this time appeared his "A Geergeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions", a volume of late sixteenth century songs, a reprint of a delightful anthology of popular songs of that period...
What is the nature of the work? What is a trail; anyway? A trail is cleared "when it has been made so passable by removal of growth of all sorts that a tramper with pack and horizontal blanket-roll, proceeding steadily, upright will encounter no obstructions, and will be able to see the footway a few steps ahead." The work consists of subtracting from the natural growth of the forest along the route of the trail whatever is necessary to reduce it to the above qualifications...