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...fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...
...Probably the lightest pack carried by any infantryman in the world. During the World War the U. S. soldier...
...same week a rival revivalist, the kindly Billy Sunday, arrived in Atlanta, Ga., with a few practical interpretations of the Scriptures. He commented that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and his "pack of pretentious, pliable, mental perverts [Modernists] are dedicated to the destruction of religion and one and all are lia,rs, so labeled by the authority of Almighty God." He called for the expulsion of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...next few days, Sir Oliver was deluged with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually...
ANYONE who has ever climbed with a pack on his back knows the drag on the shoulders, the seemingly endless upward effort necessary to progress. At such times, the tramper searches his memory for some poem to symbolize that steady, grinding advance, a perspiring conquest analogous in a small way to the sustained march of the pioneers across this country. No such uphill epic has, so far as I know, ever been written...