Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still fringed the ridges. Millard Aurand and Harrison McAllip were afoot early, out to pick berries. Toward them, in great trouble on the road came a man, crawling with a broken leg. When they reached him he could just whisper...
...state: J. Massachusetts stands first in the number of public school boys taking military drill. Over 19,000 is the number in this state, while in California. Massachusetts nearest competitor in the matter of schoolboys taking military drill, only 8000 are so listed. 2. The War, Department has plans afoot to extend compulsory military training into every school and college of any importance within the state. 3. Compulsory military training, the survey reports, without exemption, is unlawful in Massachusetts according to the law of the state. 4. Compulsory military training is maintained in two colleges through the misinterpretation...
...chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with...
Followink the success of the two trips made in 1925 by the clubs, plans are now afoot for two more journeys. Last spring the institution travelled to Hot and White Sulphur Springs, Va, and during the past Christmas vacation to other points in the South. As has already been announced, a trip is planned for the coming Easter vacation to last three days, and include New York and points cast. But it is possible that the Clubs may seek northern climes next Christmas if arrangements can be made for a trip to Montreal, Toronto, and Quebee...
...Plans Afoot...