Word: packetizing
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...sixpenny book counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...
Entering his cabin last week, they found, as they had hoped, several packets of diamonds. These the steward intended to give to Mclntyre, the policeman; Mclntyre would give them to Frances Landau and she would give them to her father, who would sell them to bedizened women. In addition to the gems, they found the chief steward, a tall, good looking man, popular with all Berengaria passengers, whose income from tips was $15,000 a year, whose valet was Thomas Crossley Earnshaw, who had a wife and a cottage in Southampton, England, and who had been a Cunard employe...
...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
...Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology to Great Britain...
...pierce the spot where a high Chinese official had his nose cut off and his eyes gouged out. Only a shining white-headed pin would do to show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most significant amid the rapidly unfolding Chinese civil war and Japanese intervention...