Word: packs
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...Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean are now dry, but if the ice were removed, they would become moist, dropping snow on nearby lands. The snow would pack into ice, and glaciers would start creeping south. Once the process was started, it might be impossible to stop before icecaps covered large parts of Europe...
Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada's 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, commands 10,000 to 15,000 words-a scholar's quota-just for everyday discourse. He gives some of his verbs hundreds of forms, one for each subtle shade of meaning.* But the Eskimo has never printed the words he speaks. Last week, from the Department of Northern Affairs and Natural Resources in Ottawa came the first serious effort to put the Eskimo...
...from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement," but Paris Mes Amours, her new revue at the Olympia Music Hall, promises to pack them in as long as Paris has the price...
...America could a man do all I've done? That's what I call freedom!" He left the monastery, joined the U.S. Navy, faked some college credentials and presented himself as a candidate for commission. When the security section started to investigate, Fred started to pack. He rejoined the Trappists, this time under the alias of Dr. Robert Linton French, a doctor of psychology whose search for truth had led him to abandon the world. But, as the brothers soon discovered, big, beefy Dr. French was not ready to abandon all of the world. He was caught "talking...
...Lost Dutchman legend begins with Don Miguel Peralta. whose family worked the mine in the in the mid-1800s. According to one version of the story, Don Miguel's pack train of 50 mules and 100 men was attacked and massacred by a band of Apaches, who reburied the treasure to please the thunder god. But one man escaped the ambush, sold a map of the mine to two gringos...