Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first competition in four years for the Percy S. Straus House All-Around Championship Trophy reaches the half-year mark, Leverett leads the pack with 243 points accrued through a touch football title and second place finish in tackle football. Kirkland and Dunster follow in a close second place battle with 215 and 210 points respectively, according to figures compiled by Intramural Director Adolph W. Samborski...
...electric light bulbs was cut from 20% to 5%; on local telephone calls, from 15% to 10%; on railway and plane tickets, from 15% to 10%. But existing federal taxes, not touched by last week's action, would still add 7 to the cost of a pack of cigarets, 10% to the cost of radios, phonographs, electric appliances...
...company have been losing a lot of good base wax on a breakable crust, hiding 25 to 28 inches of snow, during the past week. Forecasted flurries in the higher elevations should leaven the lumps on the upper part of the trails and the threatened cold wave may pack and settle the lower snow fields by the time the weekend rolls around...
...grow at the expense of the separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...
...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...